Carroll, John (1891-1971)

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public servant; soldier
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CARROLL, JOHN (1891-1971), soldier, labourer and railway employee, was born on 16 August 1891 in Brisbane, son of John Carroll, labourer, and his wife Catherine, née Wallace, both Irish-born. When he was 2 the family moved to Donnybrook, Western Australia, and then to Yarloop. About 1905 they settled at Kurrawang where John and his father joined the Goldfields Firewood Supply Co. as labourers. Tall and well built, John was a good athlete and a prominent member of the local football club; he was working as a railway guard on the Kurrawang line when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a private on 27 April 1916.

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  1. 'Carroll, John (1891 - 1971)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    Rex Clark
    [1979]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 7
    pp 572-573.

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