George Benjamin WELLAUER
Service
number: QX30244. Age:
33 years 9 months. Enlisted: 27 Feb 1942.
Occupation: Carpenter and Fisherman. Next of kin: (wife) Mrs Amy Lena
Wellauer.
Address
on enlistment: Toorbul.
Photo
from George Wellauer’s Service record.
Service
Summary:
11 Mar 1942: 2 reinforcement 6 Aust Field
Company RAE, 7 Division.
22 Jul 1943: Embarked on Tarooma from Cairns for Port Moresby.
“After the victory in Syria, where they
remained until early 1942, the Company returned to Australia for training,
before service in New Guinea in 1943.”[1]
12
Dec 1943, Bebei, New Guinea: Engineers of the 2/6th Australian
Field Company using a tractor to haul sheer logs into position during
the initial stages of building a bridge over the Faria River.[2]
Field Company using a tractor to haul sheer logs into position during
the initial stages of building a bridge over the Faria River.[2]
12 Feb 1944: Returned to Australia from
Port Moresby on Orizaba for Brisbane.
11 May 1945: Discharged.
Life
Summary:
George Wellauer (1908-1986) was born 15 May 1908 in Brisbane, a son of Benjamin
Wellauer (1877-1942) and Florence Lee (1877-1925). In 1931 he married Amy Lena
Turner (1908-1995) at Bulimba (Amy was a granddaughter of Fred Turner and Alma
Turner (Kalmakuta) of Toorbul Point).
After his military service, George Wellauer and his family settled in the Toorbul / Bribie
Island area where he worked as an oysterman. He died 13 Jan 1986, aged 77.
[1] Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1281706
[2] Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 062673 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C281978
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