BRUNNER, Reginald Lawrence
| Service Number: | QX5557 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 11 March 1914 |
| Home Town: | Willowburn, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba South Boys State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Male Nurse |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 23 August 1967, aged 53 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 21 May 1940: | Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, QX5557, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit | |
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| 21 May 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 21 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, QX5557 | |
| 21 Dec 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX5557, 2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, embarked Sydney for Middle East | |
| 24 Mar 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX5557, 2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board SS Mathuna | |
| 2 Sep 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX5557, 2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, embarked Brisbane for Port Moresby | |
| 2 Aug 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, QX5557, Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), embarked Lae for Brisbane on board Westralia | |
| 10 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, QX5557 | |
| 10 Sep 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Youngest of three brothers who served in WWII, Warrant Officer II Reginald Lawrence Brunner (Service No:QX5557) enlisted in the AIF on 21 May 1940 as a Private attached to 2 Motor Ambulance Convoy - classified Nursing Orderly. Private Brunner was attached to 2/2 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) on 21 December 1940 when he embarked with his Unit for the Middle East. Private Brunner served in Palestine, Libya and Tobruk, embarking from the Middle East for Adelaide on 24 March 1942 on board SS Mathuna. Sergeant Brunner was attached to 2/2 CCS when he embarked from Brisbane for Port Moresby on 25 September 1942, and was tranferred to the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) in November 1942. Sergeant Brunner - appointed WOII on 15 August 1944 - served with the ANGAU until 2 August 1945 (with leave breaks in Australia). WO Brunner was attached to ANGAU at Discharge on 10 September 1945.
Born in Toowoomba, QLD in 1914, Reg was eleventh of twelve children of Frederick Brunner (b1868 at Middle Ridge, Toowoomba, QLD) and Friederica Wilhelmine Flegler (b1873 at Middle Ridge, Toowoomba, QLD). Frederick (a Licensed Firewood Cutter and Labourer) Friederica married 1892 in Toowoomba, where they settled and raised their family and Frederick worked as a Labourer.
Reg was a Male Nurse at Willowburn Mental Hospital in Toowoomba in 1933 when he married Dapne May Sheriff (b1913 in Toowoomba, QLD). Reg and Dapne settled in Toowoomba, where they raised their family. Reg was a Nurse at the Willoburn Hospital in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. He and Dapne divorced - Daphne remarried in 1946 - and Reg worked as a Taxi Driver in Toowoomba, where he died in 1967.
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