Cedric (Brad) MARLES

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MARLES, Cedric

Service Number:	Q143985
Enlisted:	25 August 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Field Regiment
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 25 July 1924
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Apprentice Painter
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 April 2008, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, QLD Queensland Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

25 Aug 1942:	Involvement Gunner, Q143985, died Apr 2008 (C'Mail)
25 Aug 1942:	Enlisted
25 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment
16 Mar 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment, embarked Townsville for Lae on board the Katoomba
24 Jun 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment, embarked Lae for Townsville on board HMT Taroona
24 Feb 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment, embarked Townsville for Bougainville on board the Shawnee
2 May 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment, embarked Rabaul for Brisbane on board the Westralia
20 Sep 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143985, 4th Field Regiment
20 Sep 1946:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Cedric Marles (Service No:Q143985) enlisted in the Army on 25 August 1942 and was attached to 1 Artillery Training Regiment - Gunner. Posted to 4th Field Regiment on 21 January 1944, Gunner Marles served in New Guinea in 1944 with 4 Field Regiment and Bougainville in 1945 with 62 Transport Platoon. Private Marles was attached to 4th Field Regiment at Discharge on 20 September 1946.

Born in Bundaberg, QLD in 1924, Brad was eldest of four children of Stanley Norman Britton Marles (b1900 in Bundaberg, QLD) and Mary Agnes Hay (b1900 in Bundaberg, QLD). Stanley (a Labourer) and Mary (a Shop Assistant married in 1927 in Bundaberg, where they settled and raised their family and Stanley was a Labourer and Waterside Worker.

Brad was an Apprentice Painter in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army, returning to Bundaberg following his Discharge. Brad was working as a Painter in Bundaberg in 1956 when he married Erin Alice McCullagh (b1928 in Windorah, QLD). Brad and Erin settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Brad worked as a Painter. Brad died in 2008 and Erin in 2021.

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