FLINT, Barrington Earl

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War II (1939-1945)
Date of Enlistment
16/03/1943
Date of Discharge
17/05/1945
Place of Enlistment
Herberton, Queensland

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
16/08/1914
Place of Birth
Queanbeyan NSW
Address (at enlistment)
Isabella Street, Queanbeyan NSW. Previously at Florence Street, Oaks Estate ACT.
Occupation
Labourer
Next of Kin
Lily Flint (mother), Isabella Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
NX152143 (N242554)
Final Rank
Private
Final Unit
2/3 Battalion

Notes

Flint was mobilised on 31 January 1941 with the 3rd Battalion (militia) and marched into camp in October 1941. He arrived in Papua in May 1942 and on 5 September 1942 entered the Kokoda track in 1942 as a member of 10 Platoon, B Company, 3 Battalion. Flint was promoted to Sergeant in October 1942 shortly after the fight with the Japanese at Templetons Crossing. He also fought at Oivi and Gona before returning to Australia in January 1943. He enlisted in the AIF at Herberton, Queensland on 15 March 1943 and during the first half of the year was treated several times for bouts of malaria. Flint was transferred to the 2/3 Battalion in July 1943 and reverted to the rank of Private at his own request. After a long period of training he and his unit were sent to Aitape in New Guinea in December 1944 where the 2/3 Battalion were involved in fighting the Japanese along the coast to Wewak. He was discharged in May 1945 because he was required for employment in an 'essential occupation'. Flint had joined the CSIR in 1939 and worked with the organisation until his retirement in 1979 as a senior technical officer at the Ginninderra Experimental Station. He had rejoined the CSIR after his war service and worked at the Dickson Experimental Station until 1958 (when it was closed to allow for the development of Downer) when he was appointed as overseer at Ginninderra. He died on 6 October 1989.

Sources

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
3rd Australian Infantry Battalion (AMF) Association papers, AWM Collections, PR89/011
Karen Williams, 'Oaks Estate: No Man's Land', 1997 (p. 80, 159)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B883
Sabretache - 'Patrol from Menari' by Bede Tongs, Vol.XLIV No.1, March 2003
The Canberra Times - 10 August 1979, 7 October 1989
Image provided by Merv Robertson

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Barry Flint. Image courtesy of Merv Robertson.

Barry Flint. Image courtesy of Merv Robertson.

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