George Vaughan Hart FAIRBROTHER

FAIRBROTHER, George Vaughan Hart

Service Numbers: 1400, QX13677, QP30067
Enlisted: 1 July 1940
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: Army Ordnance Corps AIF
Born: Ayr, Scotland, 12 December 1919
Home Town: South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: South Brisbane Intermediate School
Occupation: Panel Beater /Clerk
Died: Illness, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 December 1996, aged 77 years
Cemetery: Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
Lawn L14-71
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World War 2 Service

1 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 1400
2 Jul 1940: Involvement QX13677, also QP30067 & 1400
2 Jul 1940: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QP30067, prev QX13677 also 1400- NAA digitised & (NAAQ film)
2 Jul 1940: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, also QX13677
2 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , QX13677
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned
29 Oct 1947: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 1400
29 Oct 1947: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/3rd Australian Army Ordnance Corps

Non Warlike Service

30 Oct 1947: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), 1400
29 Oct 1959: Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), 1400, Army Ordnance Corps AIF

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

George Vaughan Hart FAIRBROTHER was born in Ayr, Scotland on 12th December, 1919

His parents were George Montague Berford FAIRBROTHER & Jane NIMMO who married on 7th May, 1918 in Wallaret, Ayrshire, Scotland

He married Audrey Margaret Norma MOSS in Queensland on 14th December, 1940

He served in the Australian Army and after the war re-enlisted in the regular amy and was discharged on 29th October, 1959 - he was missing and taken as a prisoner of war on 16th February, 1942 when serving in the 2nd 10th Field Regiment and was recovered on 21st September, 1945

George died in Brisbane on 29th December, 1996 - he was buried in Mount Gravatt Cemetery

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