Francis Patrick CONWAY

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CONWAY, Francis Patrick

Service Number:	Q269695
Enlisted:	10 March 1943
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Boonah, Queensland, Australia, 3 March 1912
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shop Assistant and Clerk
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 September 1966, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Nudgee Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
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World War 2 Service

10 Mar 1943:	Involvement Corporal, Q269695
10 Mar 1943:	Enlisted
10 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q269695
24 Sep 1945:	Discharged
24 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q269695

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Francis was the eighth of nine children of Edward Conway (born 1864 in County Clare, Ireland) and Rose Elizabeth Sophia Haines (born 1875 in Somerset, England). Edward arrived in Brisbane, QLD in 1884 on board the Chyebassa, and married Rose in 1896 in Boonah, QLD where they settled and Edward was a Police Officer. The family moved to Brisbane in 1917 when Edward was transferred to Red Hill Police Station.

Francis was living in Nudgee, Brisbane and working as a Salesman in 1937 when he married Kathleen Phyllis Molloy (born 1912 in Boonah, QLD) in Nundah. Francis was a Shop Assistant and Clerk in March 1943 when he enlisted in the ACMF as a Private (Service No:Q269695). He was a Corporal attached to District Accounts Office QLD when he was Discharged in September 1945. Brothers Henry Edward (Service No:Q147567) and Peter Leonard (Service No:Q266077) also served in WWII.

Francis and Kathleen settled at Nudgee where Francis was a Salesman after the War. He died in 1966 and Kathleen in 1983.

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