CONWAY, Peter Leonard
Service Number: | Q266077 |
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Enlisted: | 22 June 1942 |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
Born: | Goodna, Queensland, Australia, 21 August 1905 |
Home Town: | Nudgee, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Fruit Salesman |
Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 July 1985, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Nudgee Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
22 Jun 1942: | Involvement Lance Corporal, Q266077 | |
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22 Jun 1942: | Enlisted | |
22 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Q266077, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
1 Jun 1943: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Depot Units of Supply, 27 Supply Depot | |
18 Nov 1944: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Depot Units of Supply, 21 Supply Depot | |
10 Dec 1945: | Discharged | |
10 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Q266077, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Peter Leonard Conway (Service No:Q266077) enlisted in the ACMF on 22 June 1942. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 18 November 1944 and served with Australian Supply Depots (including 32, 213, 27, 21 and 2/245). Lance Corporal Conway was Discharged on 10 December 1945.
Born in 1905 in Goodna QLD, Peter was the fifth of eight children of Edward Conway (b1863 in County Clare, Ireland) and Rose Elizabeth Sophia Haines (b1875 in Somerset, England). Edward immigrated in 1884, arriving in Brisbane QLD on board the Chyebassa and Rose arrived with her parents and siblings in Brisbane in 1874 on board the Derbyshire. Edward (a Police Constable) and Rose married in 1896 in Boonah, QLD where they raised their family and Edward was Sergeant of Police before moving to Brisbane in 1917, where Edward was Sergeant at the Red Hill Police Station.
Peter worked as a Carrier and in 1931 in Brisbane, married Catherine (Molly) Mary Ryan (b1911 in Toowoomba, QLD. Peter and Molly settled at Nudgee where Peter worked as a Fruit Salesman and Carrier. Molly died in 1975 and Peter in 1985.