NELSON, John Christopher
| Service Number: | QX29933 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 February 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment |
| Born: | Charleville, Queensland, Australia, 5 August 1903 |
| Home Town: | Pittsworth, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 28 April 1955, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 11 Feb 1942: | Involvement QX29933 | |
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| 11 Feb 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 11 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX29933 | |
| 20 Sep 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Craftsman, QX29933, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, ex Brisbane to Madang per Duntroon | |
| 4 Jan 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Craftsman, QX29933, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, ex Madang for Bougainville per Morton | |
| 8 Dec 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Craftsman, QX29933, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, ex Torokina for Brisbane per Ormiston | |
| 14 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX29933 | |
| 14 Dec 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Craftsman John Christopher Nelson (Service No:QX29933) enlisted in the Army on 31 January 1942 and served with 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment Workshops in New Guinea and Bougainville (25 August 1944 - 8 December 1945). Craftsman Nelson was briefly attached to 57/60 Infantry Battalion (27 November 1945) and was Discharged on 14 December 1945.
Born in 1903 at Wallal near Charleville QLD, John was the second of six children of Christopher (Chris) Johann Colombus Nelson (b1877 at Baking Board near Chinchilla, QLD) and Minnie Sommerfield (b1883 at Chinchilla, QLD). Chris (a Council Worker/Labourer) and Minnie married in 1901 in Charleville, QLD where they lived until the early 1920s and Chris was a Labourer and Council Worker. By 1923 the family was in Brisbane, QLD.
John worked as a Bootmaker in Brisbane and in 1927 in Pittsworth he married Eda (Ida) Marie Kruger (b1902 in Pittsworth, QLD). John and Eda lived in Brisbane where John was a Bootmaker before moving to Millermerran in the 1930s where John was a Labourer. Following his Discharge, John and Eda settled in Brisbane where John worked as a Canecutter. John died in 1955 and Eda in 1985.