Allan James GRIDLEY

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GRIDLEY, Allan James

Service Number:	QX28
Enlisted:	20 October 1939
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 13 June 1913
Home Town:	Eumundi, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Eumundi State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Eumundi, Queensland, Australia, 1 March 2007, aged 93 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eumundi Cemetery, Eumundi, Queensland, Australia
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World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, QX28
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX28, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
28 May 1940:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX28, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion, embarked Sydney for Gouroak, Scotland
2 Jan 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX28, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion, embarked Glasgow, Scotland for Middle East
10 Mar 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX28, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion, embarked Port Moresby for Cairns per Willis Van Der Vanter
12 Apr 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX28, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
12 Apr 1944:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Corporal Allan James Gridley (Service No:QX28) enlisted in the Army on 20 October 1939 as a Private attached to 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion. He embarked from Sydney for Gourak, Scotland on 28 May 1940, and from Glasgow bound for the Middle East on 2 January 1941. Lance Corporal Gridley served in 'England, Egypt, Libya, Giarabub, Tobruk, Palestine, Syria, New Guinea, Milne Bay, Cape Endaiadere, Buna and Sandana Point' (National Archives Australia) and was Discharged on 12 April 1944.

Born in 1913 in Brisbane QLD, Allan was the second of three children of James (Jim) Gridley (b1884 in Eumundi, QLD) and Rebecca Wilson (b1878 in Brisbane, QLD). Jim (a Timber Getter) and Rachel (a Dressmaker) married in Brisbane in 1908 and settled in Eumundi where Jim was a Timber Getter. Jim served in WWI.

Allan settled in Eumundi and was a Farm Labourer when he enlisted in the Army in 1939. In 1942 in Eumundi he married Elsie Edith Mulcahy (b1917 in Nambour, QLD). Allan and Edith lived in Eumundi and at Tuchekoi via Pomona, where Allan was a Dairy Farmer. Edith died in 1991 and Allan in 2007.

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