PHISTER, George
| Service Number: | Q142659 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Pittsworth, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, 7 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Dalby, Western Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Yandilla Provisional School, Millmerran, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Hotelkeeper |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 5 May 1994, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Jul 1942: | Involvement Private, Q142659 | |
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| 20 Jul 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 20 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q142659 | |
| 10 Dec 1943: | Discharged | |
| 10 Dec 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q142659 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private George Phister (Service No:Q142659) enlisted in the ACMF as a Private - graded Clerk - on 20 July 1942 and was attached to Army Area 9A at Discharge on 10 December 1943. Private Phister had served in the AIF in WWI (Private; Service No:6547).
George was born in Pittsworth, Darling Downs, QLD in 1898, third of eight children of Robert Morrison Phister (b1863 in Ipswich, QLD) and Janet King (b1871 in Leyburn, QLD). Robert (a Labourer) and Janet married in 1890 in Ipswich, QLD and settled at Milmerran on the Darling Downs where they raised their family and Robert was a Labourer. Robert and Janet later moved to Toowoomba, where Robert was a Labourer. Sons Sam (RAAF; WWII), Roy (AIF WWI, Died of Wounds at Ypres); George (WWI and WWII), Cyril (WWII), Clarence (WWII), Percy (WWII) and Gordon (WWII) served in the Military.
George worked as a Station Hand in Milmerran prior to service in WWI and, following his Discharge, was Proprietor of Hairdressers, Tobacconists and Billiard Saloon in Milmerran. In 1923 in Kooroongarra QLD, George married Irene (Dot) Jessie Curtis (b1899 in Leyburn, QLD). George and Dot initially lived in Pittsworth, where George was a Labourer before becoming a Licensed Victualler/Publican/Hotelkeeper - 1927 at the Coronation Hotel in Grantham on the Darling Downs - before moving to Chinchilla (1937, Tattersall Hotel), Caboolture (1940, Club Hotel), Dalby (1941, Queen's Hotel) and to Brisbane in the late 1940s. Following Dot's death in 1957, George remained in Brisbane where he worked as a Licensed Victualler and Investor. George died in 1994.
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