Geoffrey W. QUIN

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QUIN, Geoffrey W.

Service Number:	52497
Enlisted:	20 June 1918, Chicago, USA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 6 December 1887
Home Town:	Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Port Adelaide Public School
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Natural causes, Marin County, California, USA, 1972
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Semaphore Port Adelaide Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour WW1

World War 1 Service

20 Jun 1918:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 52497, Chicago, USA
7 Jul 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 52497, HMS Valacia, Halifax
7 Jul 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 52497, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
3 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 52497, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

Geoffrey QUIN travelled to the United States in 1907 at 20 years of age. He enlisted in WWI in 1918. He returned to Adelaide after the war but by 1921 he was back in the United States. There, in San Francisco, he married Jean Cosby BRIDGHAM. They had a son on 9 Sep 1926 named Geoffrey Robert QUIN.

Geoffrey QUIN Snr worked as a furnace salesman and then as a realestate broker and lived in the hills above San Francisco in Marin Country.

He died in Marin County in 1972, aged 85. - Submitted by Philip Quin

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