DOWN, Noel Thomas
| Service Numbers: | Q152542, QX48179 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 January 1904 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 16 February 1986, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, QLD |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jun 1942: | Involvement Corporal, Q152542, also QX48179 | |
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| 10 Jun 1942: | Involvement Corporal, QX48179, also Q152542 | |
| 10 Jun 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 10 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX48179, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
| 24 Sep 1945: | Discharged | |
| 24 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX48179, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Noel Thomas Down (Service No:QX48179) initially enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q152542) and was with 4 Base Supply Depot when he enlisted in the AIF on 6 February 1943. Promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1944, he was atatched to 4 Base Supply Depot at Discharge on 24 September 1945.
Born in 1904 in Brisbane QLD, Noel was the eldest of five children of Victor Allan Down (b1879 in Brisbane, QLD) and Mary Bridget Wright (b1882 in Brisbane, QLD). Victor (a Clerk) and Mary married in 1903 in Brisbane where they settled and raised their family. Victor worked for QGR as a Clerk and Railways Claims Agent, based at Roma St Railway Station.
Noel worked as a Storeman in Brisbane where, in 1934, he married Annie Isabel Nelson (b1907 in Charleville, QLD) - Annie was working as a Machinist in Brisbane. Noel and Annie settled in Brisbane where they raised their family and Noel worked as a Storeman and Salesman. Noel died in 1986 and Annie in 2004.
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