James William LINDE

LINDE , James William

Service Number: Q90751
Enlisted: 3 June 1941
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 42 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born: Mount Usher, Queensland, Australia, 22 August 1900
Home Town: Innisfail, Cassowary Coast, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 6 April 1985, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Rockhampton Crematorium, Qld
Memorials: Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld
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World War 2 Service

3 Jun 1941: Involvement Q90751
3 Jun 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q90751, 42 Infantry Battalion AMF
3 Jun 1941: Enlisted
3 Jun 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q90751, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF
29 Jul 1941: Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q90751, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF, per Ship A (Zealandia) to Thursday Island
20 Sep 1942: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 42 Infantry Battalion AMF
9 Jan 1943: Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q90751, 42 Infantry Battalion AMF, per Duntroon to Milne Bay
23 Sep 1944: Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 42 Infantry Battalion AMF
31 Oct 1945: Discharged
31 Oct 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q90751, 42 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

James was the fourth of five children of Johannes (Ernest) Frederick Linde (born 1858 in Germany) and his second wife Elizabeth Rebecca Butler (born 1870 in Maryborough, QLD). Ernest was a Landmann (Farm Labourer) when he immigrated to Brisbane, QLD in 1874 on board the Herschel. Ernest (a Miner) married Elizabeth in 1889 in Maryborough, QLD. Ernest and Elizabeth lived in Rockhampton, at Mount Usher in Crocodile and at Mount Morgan. Ernest, a Miner, was killed in a blasting accident in 1918.

James, a Labourer, married Lilian Alice Watts (born 1903 in Gloucestershire, England) in 1936 in Innisfail, QLD. Elizabeth arrived in Brisbane, QLD in 1910 on board the  Norseman. James and Lilian settled at Innisfail in QLD and James was working as a Labourer in Mount Morgan when he enlisted in the Army in June 1941. He was a Corporal (Service No:Q90751) with 42 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in October 1945.

James (a Labourer) and Lilian lived in Mount Morgan and Rockhampton, where Lilian died in 1957. Ernest retired and moved to Ingham, QLD and then to Mount Morgan, where he died in 1985.

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