Lieutenant Colonel Terence Joseph Farrell

Service number NX130833
Final Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945

Timeline

WW2 Service 2 Bougainville
Interwar Service 1 01/07/1927 51st battalion
Date and unit at enlinstment (ORs) 01/07/1927
Interwar Service 3 03/07/1928 CPlatoon
Interwar Service 2 19/02/1928 19th battalion
Interwar Service 4 01/07/1929 SGT
Interwar Service 6 26/03/1930 lieutenant
Interwar Service 7 01/07/1930 1/19th battalion
Date commissioned 26/03/1930
Interwar Service 5 30/01/1930 CQMilitary Secretary
Career summary 2 01/11/1939 full time duty
Interwar Service 8 01/09/1939 1st battalion
Career summary 1 01/11/1939 Militia adjutant 1 battalion
Career summary 3 23/07/1940 seconded staff captain Headquarters 5th Brigade
Career summary 5 29/08/1941 53rd battalion
Career summary 4 08/04/1941 temporary major
Career summary 6 03/01/1942 arrived New Guinea
Career summary 12 01/09/1942 major (bd
Career summary 7 1942-06-01 - 1942-07-16 attached 30 Infantry Brigade Training batt
Career summary 8 25/07/1942 volunteered 2AIF
Career summary 9 1942-08-10 - 1942-09-19 course course Regimental Commanders School Sc
Career summary 11 01/09/1942 captain (bd
Career summary 10 26/10/1942 temporary lieutenant colonel, commanding officer 7thmachine gun battalion
Career summary 13 26/10/1942 lieutenant colonel
Career summary 14 16/08/1943 Returned to Australia (Cairns)
Appointment 1944-04-18 - 1944-07-28 Battalion: 54th battalion ; Rank on appointment: lieutenant colonel; Appointed from: commanding officer 7thmachine gun battalion ; Reason for end of appointment: new command -training unit
Career summary 16 28/07/1944 commanding officer 2 Australian infantry training Brigade
Career summary 15 18/04/1944 commanding officer 54th battalion
Career summary 20 28/11/1945 Returned to Australia (Brisbane )
Career summary 17 13/05/1945 commanding officer 61st battalion
Career summary 19 24/10/1945 seconded Administering Comd 7th Brigade
Appointment 1945-05-13 - 1945-10-24 Battalion: 61st; Rank on appointment: lieutenant colonel; Appointed from: commanding officer 2 Australian infantry training Brigade; Reason for end of appointment: seconded administering commanding officer 7th Brigade
Career summary 18 30/05/1945 arrived Bougainville
Career summary 21 04/01/1946 Reserve of Officers
Career summary 22 15/11/1946 ED