Francis Norman WARD

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WARD, Francis Norman

Service Number:	QX26232
Enlisted:	29 December 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 August 1922
Home Town:	Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Assembler - Galvaniser
Died:	Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia, 22 April 1995, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eco Memorial Park \| Stapylton, Qld
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World War 2 Service

29 Dec 1941:	Involvement QX26232
29 Dec 1941:	Enlisted
29 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX26232, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)
14 Dec 1945:	Discharged
14 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX26232, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Francis Norman Ward (Service No:QX26232) enlisted in the AIF on 29 December 1941 as a Private (classified Cook) attached to 7 Training Battalion. Promoted to Corporal on 18 September 1943, he served in Morotai and Ambon with 64 Infantry Battalion (22 May 1945 - 10 November 1945), and was attached to 64 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 14 December 1945.

Francis was born in Brisbane, QLD in 1922, eldest of three children of Norman Ward (b1895 in Brisbane, QLD) and Jane Elizabeth Martin (b1897 in Brisbane, QLD). Norman and Jane married in 1922 in Brisbane, where they settled and raised their family and Norman was a Hairdresser, Barber and Labourer. Norman served in WWI (Private; Service No:6881) and WWII (Private; Service No:Q303712).

Francis was working in Brisbane as an Assembler - Galvaniser in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army, and in 1943 in Brisbane married Lily Jane Beeby (b1922 in Brisbane, QLD) - Lily worked as a Shop Assistant in Brisbane. Francis and Lily settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Francis worked as a Metal Polisher. Francis and Lily divorced in the early 1960s, and following retirement Francis moved to Beenleigh where he died in 1995. Lily remarried and died in 2005.

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