Lionel Thomas QUICK

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Service Number:	QX14857
Enlisted:	16 July 1940, Kelvin Grove, Qld, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Alderley, Queensland, Australia, 16 October 1917
Home Town:	Alderley, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Cause of death - not known, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 8 August 1971, aged 53 years
Cemetery:	Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Grave Location: Roman Catholic/Lawn 3/Grave 498. Also his Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Wall 6/Row D; at the Queensland Garden of Remembrance (within the grounds) of Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium - Graham Rd - Bridgeman Downs, Qld, Australia.
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

16 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Kelvin Grove, Qld, Australia
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported, as per stated: P.O.W, 15/02/1942; Missing, 13/04/1942 to 02/09/1942; To Surrender Date: 10/09/1945, Japanese Forces surrended to the Allied Forces at the Surrender Point Memorial-Labuan Federal Territory-Labuan, Malaysia. Medical repatriation, as per stated: Abscess of abdominal wall, 24/10/1945 to 04/01/1946, at 112 Brisbane Military Hospital; (NAA) Service Record (Pg's: 6,7 of 18pg's) of Private: Lionel Thomas QUICK; SN QX14857.
24 Oct 1945:	Wounded Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore, Wounded - Specifically a medical condition repatriated, as per stated: abscess of abdominal wall, 24/10/1945 to 04/01/1946; NAA Service Record (Pg's: 6&7 of 18pg's) of Private: Lionel Thomas QUICK; SN QX14857.
10 Jan 1946:	Discharged Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Date and Posting at Discharge: 10/01/1946; Unit: 2nd/26th Australian Infantry Battalion; NAA Service Record of Private: Lionel Thomas QUICK; SN QX14857.
10 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX14857, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion

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Son of William Henry QUICK & Elizabeth Maud (nee-SMITH) QUICK.

Next of Kin - Sister: Alice May (nee-Quick) Stoodley.

Married: Daphne Pearl (nee-Darcy) Quick, 4 January 1947; Brisbane, Queensland.