Hamlet John BRADFORD

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BRADFORD, Hamlet John

Service Numbers:	QX42812, Q192331
Enlisted:	29 July 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Killarney, Queensland, Australia, 15 July 1915
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Leadlight Worker/Glazier
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 March 2010, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
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World War 2 Service

29 Jul 1940:	Involvement Corporal, Q192331, also QX42812 - died 2 Mar 2010 (C'Mail)
29 Jul 1940:	Involvement Corporal, QX42812, also Q192331 - died 2 Mar 2010 (C'Mail)
29 Jul 1940:	Enlisted
29 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX42812
22 Oct 1945:	Discharged
22 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX42812

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Hamlet was the third of five children of John Bradford (b1875 in Warwick, QLD) and Faith Harriet Alice Gray (b1890 in Brisbane, QLD). John (a Labourer) and Faith married in 1911 in Tenterfield, NSW and lived in QLD - Brisbane, Killarney and Wynnum - where John worked as a Labourer.

Hamlet was a Leadlight Worker/Glazier in Manly, Brisbane QLD in 1939 when he married Doris (Tay) Davies (b1918 in Brisbane, QLD). In 1940 Hamlet enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q192331). He was attached to 5 Motor Transport Coy AASC when he was Discharged on 23 September 1942 to enlist in the AIF the next day. Hamlet served (Corporal; Service No:QX42812) with 2/14 Transport Platoon AASC and was in New Guinea (1942/1943) and Morotai and Borneo (1945). He was Discharged on 22 October 1945.

Returning to Manly, Hamlet worked as a Glass Silverer and he and Tay were Divorced - Hamlet remarried in 1952 to Anne Harriet Jones (b1927 in Brisbane, QLD) - Anne was a Commercial Artist in Manly. Hamlet and Anne settled in Geebung, Petrie QLD where Hamlet worked as a Glass Silverer. He died in 2010 and Anne in 2020.

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