Herbert Thomas NOBBS

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NOBBS, Herbert Thomas

Service Numbers:	QX37902, Q16093
Enlisted:	17 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 16 May 1917
Home Town:	Pomona, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2 December 1969, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/248580834/herbert-t-nobbs
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX37902, also Q16093 - FTD 20/12/1941?
17 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, Q16093, FTD 20/12/1941? - also QX37902
17 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
20 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37902
26 May 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37902, ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Tarooma
17 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37902, 5th Infantry Battalion, ex Cairns to Aitape per Duntroon
2 Mar 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37902, 5th Infantry Battalion, Emplaned Lae to Townsville
2 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37902

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Herbert was the second of six children of Thomas Nobbs (b1883 in Durham, England) and Alice Jessie Cowan Holbrook (b1891 in Caboolture, QLD). Thomas was four years of age when he immigrated with his parents and siblings, arriving in Mayborough, QLD on board the Merkala in 1888. Thomas (a Labourer at Bunya Creek, Wide Bay QLD) and Alice married in 1914 in Bunya Creek at Kandanga via Gympie QLD. They settled in Kandanga, where Thomas was a Labourer before moving to Gympie in the early 1930s - Thomas was a Dairy Farmer.

Herbert was working as a Farm Labourer in 1939 when he enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q16093). He was attached to 9/49 Infantry Battalion when he enlisted In the Field with the AIF (Private; Service No:QX37902). Herbert served in Milne Bay (30 July 1942 - 6 January 1943 and 26 May 1943 - 6 October 1943) and Aitape (24 November 1944 - 4 February 1946). Herbert was a Private attached to 2/5 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in April 1946. Brother Robert Edward (Service No:QX37890) also served in WWII.

By 1949 Herbert had married Phylis Winnifred Halse (b1926 in Brisbane, QLD) and was living in Sydney NSW where he worked as a Striker for the NSW Government Railways. Herbert died in 1959 and Phylis died in 1995.

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