Frederick Norman (Fred) WALK

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WALK, Frederick Norman

Service Number:	Q71943
Enlisted:	10 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 11 January 1915
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Bundaberg South State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer (Cane Cutter)
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 October 1976, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, QLD Queensland Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

10 Apr 1941:	Involvement Private, Q71943
10 Apr 1941:	Enlisted
10 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q71943
22 May 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Frederick Norman Walk (Service No:Q71943) served in the ACMF with 101 and 113 General Transport Coys from 10 April 1941 to 22 May 1945. Younger brother Stanley Idris Walk (Service No:75848) died in New Guinea.

Born in Bundaberg, QLD in 1916, Fred was fifth of six children of Frederick Johann Carl Walk (b1880 in Bundaberg, QLD) and his first wife Mildred Hall (b1879 in Worcestershire, England) - Mildred immigrated in 1887, arriving in Brisbane with her parents and siblings on board the Dacca. Frederick worked on the family farm (Morocco Farm) at Barolin in Musgrave via Bundaberg, and in 1911 he and Mildred married in Bundaberg. The couple settled at Morocco Farm, where they raised their family and Frederick was a Sugar Cane and Dairy Farmer. Following Mildred's death, Frederick remarried in 1936 to Caroline Jane Honor (nee Horwood; b1899 in Gin Gin, QLD) and settled in Bundaberg, where he was a Farmer.

Fred was a Labourer (Cane Cutter) in Bundaberg in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army, and in 1943 in Brisbane married Doris Irene Frazer (b1920 in Brisbane, QLD). Fred and Doris settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Motorman until his death in 1976. Doris died in 2006).

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