Alfred Mansfield HOLLOWAY

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HOLLOWAY, Alfred Mansfield

Service Numbers:	Q66175, Q122233, QX39483
Enlisted:	10 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	36th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2 January 1917
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Cook
Died:	Hungerford, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, 15 April 1955, aged 38 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bourke General Cemetery, NSW
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World War 2 Service

10 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, Q66175, also Q122233 & QX39483
10 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q66175, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies
10 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
24 Apr 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q66175, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies
24 Apr 1941:	Discharged
5 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Private, Q122233, General Hospitals - WW2, Cook
20 Jul 1942:	Discharged Private, Q122233, General Hospitals - WW2, Cook
21 Jul 1942:	Enlisted QX39483, 36th Infantry Battalion
7 Mar 1945:	Discharged QX39483, 36th Infantry Battalion, Private

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Alfred (Alf) was the fourth of five children (sons) of Henry Stanley Holloway (born 1883 in Warwick, QLD) and Violet Edith Cooke (born 1894 in Maryborough, QLD). Henry was a Labourer at Inglewood in the Maranoa, QLD when he married Violet in 1910. They lived in the Maranoa/Darling Downs Region where Henry was a Labourer.

Alf had a couple of brushes with the law in his late teens - 1936 in Brisbane, Alf and a friend George Zanders were charged with misuse of Relief Work dockets and fined. In 1937 Alf, brother Granville and friend Robert Kluck were charged in Rockhampton with having travelled by rail between Boongary and Kabra without having purchased the 10d ticket. They were fined 10/- each, in default 12 hours in the cells.

By 1939 Alf was working as a Cook in Brisbane, and in 1940 married Sarah Lucy Swann (born 1923 in Oakey, Toowoomba, QLD). Alf enlisted in the CMF in March 1942, serving with 1st Labour Coy as a Private (Service No:Q66175) until July 1942. In enlisted in the AIF on 21 July 1942 and served as a Private (Service No: QX39483) with 36 Infantry Battalion and was Discharged in March 1945. Brothers Clifford Francis (Service No:Q227782) and Henry Granville (Service No:QX7644), and Brothers-in-Law Samuel William Swann (Service No:QX10449), Arthur Newbery Swann (Service No:43461), Albert James Daniel Swann (Service No:Q104009), Edmund Joseph Swann (Service No:QX16907), Roy Cyril Raymond Brown (Service No:VX1601) and Kenneth (Digger) George Oliver (Dervice No:QX52167) also served in WWII.

Alf returned to Brisbane, QLD for a brief period before moving to Hungerford, in Bourke, NSW where he died in 1955. Sarah had moved to Millmerran on the Darling Downs by 1949, then relocated to Dalby QLD. Sarah died in 1992.

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