NELSON, Arthur James
| Service Number: | Q89762 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Charleville, Queensland, Australia, 14 October 1909 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 April 1979, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Aug 1941: | Involvement Corporal, Q89762 | |
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| 18 Aug 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 18 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q89762, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 24 Sep 1947: | Discharged | |
| 24 Sep 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q89762, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Arthur James Nelson (Service No:Q89762) enlisted in the ACMF on 18 August 1941 and was attached to 111 General Transport Coy at Discharge on 24 September 1947.
Born in 1909 in Charleville QLD, Arthur was the fifth of six children of Christopher (Chris) Johann Colombus Nelson (b1877 at Baking Board near Chinchilla, QLD) and Minnie Sommerfiled (b1883 in Chinchilla, QLD). Chris (a Labourer) and Minnie married in 1901 Charlevillw, QLD where Chris was a Council Worker/Labourer before moving to Brisbane in the early 1920s.
Arthur worked as a Labourer in Brisbane where, in 1933 he married Ida Josephine Dobson (b1911 in Brisbane, QLD). Arthur and Ida settled in Brisbane where Arthur was a Labourer and a Mechanic. Arthur died in 1979 and Ida in 1995.
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