LITTLE, Melvin Arthur
| Service Numbers: | QX49955, Q105422 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia, 16 December 1919 |
| Home Town: | Gympie, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 21 June 1991, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 13 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX49955 | |
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| 13 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Driver, Q105422, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 12 Mar 1943: | Discharged Private, Q105422, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 13 Mar 1943: | Involvement Private, Q105422, also QX49955 | |
| 13 Mar 1943: | Involvement Private, QX49955, also Q105422 | |
| 13 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49955, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Private | |
| 13 Mar 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 20 Jul 1943: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49955, ex Brisbane per Henry T Allen for Port Moresby | |
| 22 May 1944: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49955, ex Lae per Sea Flasher to Brisbane | |
| 15 Jun 1945: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49955, ex Cairns per LST 703 for Morotai | |
| 14 Mar 1946: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49955, ex Balikapan per USAT Amherst Victory for Brisbane | |
| 11 Apr 1946: | Discharged | |
| 11 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX49955 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Melvin was the third of five children of Arthur Little (born 1886 at Kangaroo Valley, NSW) and Sylvia Mabel Sawtell (born 1889 in Bowral, NSW). George (a Railway Worker) married Sylvia in 1914 at Temora in NSW. By 1919 the family had moved to Kingaroy in QLD and then settled at Two Mile near Gympie where Arthur was a Farmer until 1935. The family moved in to Gympie and Arthur worked as a Labourer.
Melvin was working as a Labourer in Gympie when he enlisted in the AMF in January 1942 - he served as a Driver (Service No:Q105422) with 111 Australian General Transport Coy until enlisting in the Army in March 1943. Melvin served as a Private with 111 Transport Platoon and 2/21 Transport Platoon - in New Guinea (1943/1944) and NEI (1945/1946). He was attached to 2/21 Transport Platoon when he was Discharged on 11 April 1946.
Melvin returned to Gympie where he worked as a Labourer and Timber Worker until 1950 when he relocated to Brisbane. In 1952 he married Dorothy Elsie Halsted (born 1921 in Brisbane, QLD). Dorothy was a Launderess. Melvin and Dorothy settled in Brisbane, where Melvin worked as a Technician. Dorothy died in 1988 and Melvin in 1991.