Brigadier Jack Lowell Amies

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Photograph 070730
Service number QX6007, 1/21001
Ranks Held Brigadier, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
Birth Date 14/12/1913
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Death Date 07/11/1996
Final Rank Brigadier
Service Australian Army
Units
  • 15th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion
  • RAI
Place Sydney
Conflicts/Operations
  • Second World War, 1939-1945
  • Period 1945-1959
  • Period 1945-1959

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    SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, 1959. QX6007 LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.L. AMIES, OBE, COMMANDING ...

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Date of birth 14/12/1913
Date of birth 14/12/1913 Sydney, NSW.
Date commissioned 14/08/1935
Other 14/08/1935 Lieutenant Australian Field Artillery.
Other units 07/11/1939 10th Field Battery, 2/5th Field Regiment.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) 28/10/1939 Enlisted 2nd AIF.
Other 13/10/1939 Seconded lieutenant 6th Division Artillery.
Other units 27/06/1940 2/31st Battalion.
Other units 19/01/1940 2/1st Anti Tank Regiment.
Other 15/07/1940 Course - Junior Leaders AIF School Tilshead.
Other 24/02/1940 Course - School of Artillery.
Date promoted 28/06/1940 Appointed captain.
Other 1940-08-28 - 1940-09-04 Attached London PI.
Other 17/06/1940 Arrived Scotland.
Other 30/08/1941 Course - Middle East Combined Training Centre.
Other 20/12/1941 Special Duty.
Date promoted 19/07/1941 Appointed major.
Other 09/03/1941 Arrived Middle East from United Kingdom.
Other units 1942-08-11 - 1944-09-14 Temporary lieutenant colonel, Commanding Officer 15th Battalion.
Date returned to Australia 10/03/1942 Returned to Adelaide.
Date returned to Australia 30/11/1943
Other 12/01/1943 Arrived Milne Bay.
Date of honour or award 23/12/1943 Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Other 28/12/1943 Arrived Moresby.
Date promoted 20/04/1944 Appointed lieutenant colonel.
Other 1944-09-22 - 1945-09-24 Instructor Land Headquarters Tactical School.
Date returned to Australia 04/06/1944 Returned to Brisbane.
Date of honour or award 31/05/1944 Mention in Despatches.
Other 30/10/1945 Reserve of Officers.
Other units 01/04/1948 Commanding officer 9th Battalion.
Other 18/10/1951 Reserve of Officers.
Other 22/02/1952 General service officer grade 1 Citizens Military Force Headquarters Northern Command.
Other units 18/04/1954 Commanding Officer 7th Brigade.
Other 1956-04-20 - 1959-04-20 Honourary Aide de Camp to the Governor General.
Date of honour or award 20/04/1959 Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Date of death 07/11/1996

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