MAXWELL, Sydney John
Service Numbers: | QX46849, Q47884 |
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Enlisted: | 4 September 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | AMF Light Field Ambulance Units - AMF (Militia) WW2 |
Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 28 June 1918 |
Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 1 November 1995, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery, Qld |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
4 Sep 1940: | Involvement Private, QX46849, also Q47884 | |
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4 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46849 | |
12 Jul 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46849, AMF Light Field Ambulance Units - AMF (Militia) WW2, ex Townsville per Canberra to Port Moresby | |
26 Aug 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46849, AMF Light Field Ambulance Units - AMF (Militia) WW2, emplaned ex Port Moresby to Townsville | |
4 Oct 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46849, AMF Light Field Ambulance Units - AMF (Militia) WW2, ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Nanonda | |
21 Dec 1945: | Involvement Private, Q47884, also QX46849 | |
21 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46849 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sydney was the eldest of seven children of John James Michael Maxwell (b1897 in Ipswich, QLD) and Evelyn Alice Nunn (b1896 in Ipswich, QLD). John - a Coach Painter - and Evelyn married in 1918 in Ipswich, QLD where they settled and raised their family.
Working in Ipswich as a Labourer, Sydney enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q47884) and was attached to 1st Light Field Ambulance when he was Discharged on 14 January 1941, He re-enlisted the next day, serving as a Private (Service No:QX46849) with 101 Light Field Ambulance in New Guinea (1943 - 1945). Sydney was Discharged in December 1945.
Sydney married Jean Edwards (b1922 in Ipswich, QLD) in 1942, and following his Discharge from the Army, Sydney and Jean settled in Ipswich where Sydney worked as a Potter, Sydney died in 1995 and Jean in 2009)