Cecil John MOLLOY

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MOLLOY, Cecil John

Service Numbers:	Q143658, QX57102
Enlisted:	18 September 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	114 General Military Hospital
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 6 August 1923
Home Town:	Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10 August 2008, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld

World War 2 Service

18 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143658, 114 General Military Hospital
30 Sep 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q143658, 114 General Military Hospital
1 Oct 1943:	Involvement Private, Q143658, also QX57102 - died 2008 (RSL News)
1 Oct 1943:	Involvement Private, QX57102, also Q143658 - died 2008 (RSL News)
1 Oct 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX57102
1 Oct 1943:	Enlisted
30 Sep 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX57102
30 Sep 1946:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Cecil was the eldest of six children of Edmund (Skinny) John Molloy (born 1901 in Ipswich, QLD) and Hulda (Hilda) Gorsch (born 1903 in Laidley, QLD). Skinny - a Labourer - and Hilda married in Ipswich in 1923. In the mid 1930s the family moved to Cleveland and then to Wulkuaka at Goodna where Skinny was a Coal Miner.

Cecil was a Labourer in Ipswich, QLD when he enlisted in the Army. He served as a Private (Service Nos:QX57102/Q143658) and was attached to 7 Base Ordinance Depot when he was Discharged in September 1946. The State Library of QLD holds a copy of Cecil's story written by Matthew Bird (2001) Serving at Home - a brief history of Cecil John Molloy.

In 1946 Cecil married Audrey Marginson (born 1923 in Ipswich, QLD) in Ipswich, where they settled and Cecil worked as a Labourer. Audrey died in 1995 and Cecil in 2008.

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