MORTON, John Mark
| Service Number: | Q197128 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Laidley, Queensland, Australia, 21 February 1913 |
| Home Town: | Wynnum, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 June 1957, aged 44 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, Q197128 | |
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| 29 Jul 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 29 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q197128 | |
| 16 Mar 1944: | Discharged | |
| 16 Mar 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q197128 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private John Mark Morton (Service No:Q197128) enlisted in the ACMF on 29 July 1940 and was attached to 1st Labour Coy. Private Morton was attached to 126 Australian Special Hospital (ASH) when he was Discharged on 16 March 1944.
Born in 1913 in Laidley on the Darling Downs in QLD, John was the eldest of two children of Edward Morton (b1877 at Laidley, QLD) and Agnes Ellen May Carlson (b1883 in Laidley, QLD). Edward was a Sawyer when he and Agnes married in 1906 in Laidley, QLD where they lived until 1920 and Edward was a Sawyer. Edward and Agnes then settled with their family at Wynnum, Brisbane QLD where Edward worked as a Labourer and Salesman.
John started working in Wynnum as a Shop Assistant and by 1937 was a Clerk when he married Audrey May Edwards (b1915 in Bulimba, QLD). Following his Discharge from the ACMF, John remained in Wynnum and worked as a Factory Hand and Draper. John and Audrey divorced and Audrey remarried. John died in 1957.