Fredrick George COLES

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COLES, Fredrick George

Service Number:	Q271178
Enlisted:	21 April 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots
Born:	Albion, , Queensland, Australia, 14 April 1913
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, Q271178
21 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q271178, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots
21 Jul 1944:	Discharged
21 Jul 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q271178, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Frederick George Coles (Service No:Q271178) enlisted in the ACMF on 21 April 1942 with 1 Australian Services Training Battalion. Private Coles served with No 2 QLD Lines of Communication (LoC) Bulk Issue Petrol and Oil Depot (BIPOD) - in July 1944 he was one of seven soldiers charged with stealing petrol from Army stores and was imprisoned for twelve months. Private Coles was Discharged on 21 July 1944.

Born in 1913 in Brisbane QLD, Fred was the second of six children of George Francis Coles (b1885 in Brisbane, QLD) and Sarah Jane Seel (b1888 in Toowoomba, QLD). George (a Labourer) and Sarah married in Brisbane in 1910 and by 1915 had settled in Toowoomba where George was a Labourer and Railways Employee. In May 1916 George had enlisted in the AIF following pressure from two of his brothers, and a month later was Discharged following a request from his wife, claiming she was in poor health with two small children (National Archives Australia).

Fred (registered as George Frederick but aka Frederick/Fred) worked as a Builders' Labourer in Toowoomba and in 1934 married Evelyn Agatha Doolan (b1917 in Ipswich, QLD). Fred and Evelyn settled in Wynnum, Brisbane QLD where Fred was a Labourer. In 1949 Fred was working as a Yardman at Chardon's Hotel in Mt Gravatt, Brisbane and Evelyn was living on her own in Kedron, Brisbane. Evelyn later remarried in Sydney NSW and died in 1995.

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