Ivan Coram ZUPP MM

ZUPP, Ivan Coram

    Service Numbers: QX56634, Q108113
    Enlisted: 24 July 1943
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 61 Infantry Battalion AMF
    Born: Boonah, Queensland, Australia, 12 February 1921
    Home Town: Boonah, Scenic Rim, Queensland
    Schooling: Dugandan State School, Queensland, Australia
    Occupation: Farmer
    Died: Illness, Boonah, Queensland, Australia, 11 November 1995, aged 74 years
    Cemetery: Dugandan Trinity Lutheran church cemetery, Queensland, Australia
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    World War 2 Service

    6 Oct 1941: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX56634, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, Milne Bay - Papua New Guinea WW2, Citizen Military Forces
    24 Jul 1943: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q108113
    24 Jul 1943: Involvement Private, QX56634, also Q108113
    24 Jul 1943: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX56634, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF
    24 Jul 1943: Enlisted
    19 Jun 1945: Honoured Military Medal, Bougainville, On 22nd February 1945, in Mosigetta Area at Bougainville, 10 Platoon were in perimeter defence on a track junction on the Pikei Road. A party of enemy, armed with light mortors, light machine-guns, rifles and grenades vigorously attacked the position. The enemy attacked continuously for an hour, and were beaten off with heavy losses. QX56634 Pte Zupp, I.C. a bren gunner occupied a pit facing east, from which direction the strongest attacks were launched. During the attack,he displayed courage and coolness under fire, and was an example to the rest of his section. By efficient and deadly fire from his automatic, he assisted in breaking up the enemy attack accounting for at least two enemy killed. After being shot through the chest, he disregarded his wound, and by dogged perseverance, determination and sheer will power, continued to operate his bren accounting for two more enemy, until he collapsed from exhaustion. That he was able to keep his gun firing so long, was one of the deciding factors in the ultimate defeat of the enemy attack, and his outstanding courage and devotion to duty were the subject of great admiration from the rest of his platoon, and had served as an inspiration to them during the immediate action.
    7 Jun 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX56634, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF

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    Biography contributed

    Ivan Coram ZUPP was born in Boonah, Queensland on 12th February, 1921

    His parents were Ferdinand Gustav ZUPP & Alma Auguste STEGERT

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