Willis Graham THRUPP

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THRUPP, Willis Graham

Service Number:	QX18171
Enlisted:	21 May 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Bombardier
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia, 17 January 1918
Home Town:	D'Aguilar, Moreton Bay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Station Hand
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 14 July 2009, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
Memorials:	Kilcoy Honour Roll, Town of Roma & Shire of Bungil WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

21 May 1941:	Involvement QX18171, died 14 Jul 2009 (C'Mail)
21 May 1941:	Enlisted
21 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, QX18171
7 Nov 1945:	Discharged
7 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, QX18171

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Bombardier Willis Graham Thrupp (Service No:QX18171) enlisted in the AIF on 21 May 1941 as a Private/Gunner - graded Gunlayer. Lance Bombardier Thrupp was attached to 2/4 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, and served in the Middle East (11 November 1941 - 27 February 1943) and New Guinea (12 July 1943 - 8 June 1944). Lance Bombardier Thrupp was attached to 2/4 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment at Discharge on 7 November 1945.

Willis was born in Kilcoy, QLD in 1918, youngest of two children of Alfred Thrupp (b1868 in Bendigo, Victoria) and his second wife Isabella Kate Jackson (b1881 in Redbank, QLD) Alfred (a Widower with seven children, and working as a Labourer) and Isabella (a Fruiterer with a young daughter) married in Logan Village in 1914, and lived at Clifton on the Darling Downs and Kilcoy, where they raised their family and Alfred was a Labourer and Council Overseer.

Willis worked on Marie Downs via Roma as a Station Hand prior to enlisting in the Army. In 1944 in Brisbane, he married Elsie (Bubbles) May Larkin (b1921 in Brisbane, QLD). Following his Discharge from the Army, Willis and Elsie settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Willis was a Labourer and Manager. Willis died in 2009 and Elsie in 2011.

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