SPRINGALL, John Allan
| Service Number: | Q229343 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 27 February 1910 |
| Home Town: | Charleville, Murweh, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Dinmore State School, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Station Manager |
| Died: | Accidentally Killed, Babiloora Station via Augathella, Queensland, Australia, 27 November 1954, aged 44 years |
| Cemetery: |
Augathella Cemetery, Murweh, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Sep 1942: | Involvement Private, Q229343, Page missing from Enlistment Register | |
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| 15 Sep 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 15 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q229343, 19th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q229343, 19th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Youngest of the three brothers (Arthur and Walter) who served in WWII, Private John Allan Springall (Service No:Q229343) served in the ACMF with 19 Battalion (Roma) VDC from 15 September 1942 to 21 October 1945.
Jack was born in Ipswich QLD in 1910, third of five children of Charles (Charlie) Walter Springall (b1870 in Gympie, QLD) and his second wife Lillian (Lily) Brown (b1880 in Fernvale, QLD). Charlie was a Widower with two children when he and Lily married in 1905 in Ipswich, where they settled and raised their family and Charlie worked for the Railways as a Fitter/Machinist. By 1915 Charlie and Lily had moved to Brisbane (Birkdale), where Charlie was an Engine Fitter. Following Lily's death in 1919, Charlie lived and worked in Gympie, returning to Brisbane by 1931 when he remarried.
Jack worked as a Station Hand at Plevna Downs via Augathella, and in 1938 in Augathella married May Cameron (b1918 in Charleville, QLD). Jack and May lived at Plevna Downs Station, where they raised their family and Jack was a Station Hand, before moving to Fairview Station in 1941 - Jack was Station Manager when he enlisted in the ACMF. In 1954 Jack was fencing at Babiloora Station, when a branch from trees he was felling crushed his head, killing him. May remained on Fairvew Station, where she raised her children, died in 2000.