Kevin John BRADSHAW

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BRADSHAW, Kevin John

Service Numbers:	Q25289, QX62098
Enlisted:	30 September 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Army Signals Corps
Born:	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 5 May 1916
Home Town:	Maryborough, Fraser Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Radio Mechanic
Died:	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 28 June 2004, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maryborough Crematorium, Queensland , Australia
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World War 2 Service

30 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q25289, 47th Infantry Battalion AMF
6 Sep 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, Q25289, Army Signals Corps
7 Sep 1944:	Involvement Sergeant, QX62098, also Q25289
7 Sep 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, QX62098
20 Oct 1945:	Involvement Sergeant, Q25289, also QX62098
20 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, QX62098

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Kevin John Bradshaw (Service Nos:Q25289/QX62098) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 13 September 1941 as a Private with 47 Infantry Battalion, and served with 2 Coy Townsville Signals (Signaller) - 'I was transferred to Fortress Signals at Kissing Point Townsville, and was there when Townsville was bombed by the Japanese' (NAA; 1976). Promoted to Lance Sergeant, he served in the Torres Strait Islands with 4 Carrier Maintenance Section from 28 February 1943 to 27 July 1945, and described how 'We were at times harassed by enemy reconnaissance planes - some dropped their bombs on Horn Island before departing' (NAA; 1976). Sergeant Bradshaw was attached to 4 Carrier Maintenance Section at Discharge on 20 October 1945.

Kevin was born in 1916 in Maryborough QLD, only child of John (Jack) Bradshaw (b1886 in Maryborough, QLD) and Anastasia Margaret O'Brien (b1886 in Maryborough, QLD). Jack and Anastasia married in 1916 in Maryborough, where they settled and raised their son, and Jack was a Bootmaker.

Kevin was working in Maryborough as a Radio Mechanic in 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF, and in 1942 married Olive Mildred Robinson (b1922 in Maryborough, QLD). Following his Discharge from the Army, Kevin and Olive settled in Maryborough, where they raised their family and Kevin was a Radio Mechanic and Radio and TV Technician. Olive died in 2001 and Kevin in 2004.

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