Edmund Joseph SWANN

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SWANN, Edmund Joseph

Service Numbers:	QX16907, QX16097
Enlisted:	25 March 1941
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Field Company Engineers
Born:	Kooralgin, Queensland, Australia, 21 November 1917
Home Town:	Millmerran, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Dalby, Queensland, Australia , 23 June 1988, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Myall Lawn Cemetery, Dalby, Qld
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World War 2 Service

25 Mar 1941:	Involvement QX16907
25 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
25 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX16907
13 Sep 1941:	Embarked Private, QX16907, 25th Infantry Battalion, per HT HH to Middle East
8 Feb 1942:	Embarked Private, QX16907, 25th Infantry Battalion, ex Middle East to Brisbane
9 Aug 1942:	Embarked Private, QX16907, 25th Infantry Battalion, ex Brisbane for Port Moresby
17 Jan 1943:	Embarked Private, QX16907, 25th Infantry Battalion, ex New Guinea to Australia
20 May 1943:	Transferred Private, Field Company Engineers, 2/5 Field Coy RAE
12 Aug 1943:	Embarked Private, QX16907, Field Company Engineers, 2/5 Field Coy RAE ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Katoomba
4 Mar 1944:	Embarked Sapper, QX16097, Field Company Engineers, 2/5 Field Coy RAE ex Moresby to Townsville per Taroona
4 Apr 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Edmund was the seventh of ten children of William Newbery Swann (born 1869 in Cheshire, England) and Sarah Jane Stevenson (born 1886 in Brisbane, QLD). William was a House Painter in Toowoomba, QLD in 1905 when he married Sarah. William and Sarah moved around the Darling Downs region (Toowoomba, Pechey, Warwick, Crows Nest, Kooralgin and Millmerran) where William worked as a House Painter, Engineer, Engine Driver and Labourer. He died at Millmerran in 1927.

Like his older brothers, Ed started work at an early age - he was a Farm Labourer at Black Duck Creek via Gatton by the age of seventeen, and enlisted in the Army in 1941. He served as a Sapper and Private (Service No:QX16907) with 2/25th Infantry Battalion and 2/5 Field Coy RAE. Ed was in the Middle East (1 September 1942 to 3 March 1943) and New Guinea (10 August 1943 to 5 March 1944) and was Discharged in April 1945. Brothers Samuel William (Service No:QX10449). Albert James Daniel (Service No:Q104009) and Arthur Newbery (Service No:43461), and Brothers-in-Law Kenneth George Oliver (Service No:QX52167) and Alfred Mansfield Holloway (Service Nos:Q66175/Q122233/QX39483) also served in WWII.

Following his Discharge, Ed returned to Milmerran where he worked as a Labourer before becoming a Dairy Farmer in the late 1940s at Clontarf in Millmerran on the Darling Downs, QLD. In the 1960s he moved to Dalby and worked as a Labourer, marrying Widow Enid Olive Marsh (nee Wilkin, born 1921 in Toowoomba, QLD) at Dalby in the mid 1970s. Ed and Enid lived in Dalby where Ed worked as a Labourer. He died in 1988 and Enid in 2000.

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