Florence Edith (Flo) YOUNG

YOUNG, Florence Edith

Service Number: Q142413
Enlisted: 5 July 1942
Last Rank: Signaller
Last Unit: 1MD / Qld Area Lines of Communication
Born: Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, 3 December 1919
Home Town: Murwillumbah, Tweed, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Public Servant Postal Clerk
Died: Liver Cancer, Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital, Queensland, Australia, 1 January 1982, aged 62 years
Cemetery: Redland Bay Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

5 Jul 1942: Involvement Signalman, Q142413, on WW2NR as Q142413
5 Jul 1942: Enlisted
5 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, Q142413, Lines of Communication Signals, Unit Victoria Barracks Queensland 1MD
20 Jun 1944: Discharged
20 Jun 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signaller, Q142413, 1MD / Qld Area Lines of Communication

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Biography contributed by Chris Mallcott

Florence Edith Young was born on the 3rd December 1919 in Murwillumbah NSW. Before she enlisted she was a Postal Clerk. Whilst serving in the army she met her husband who she would marry Donald George McCaskill who was a Sapper who served in Borneo.