INGRAM, Robert Earnest Clarence
| Service Number: | W69780 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 December 1904 |
| Home Town: | Collie Burn, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 26 January 1969, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremation MCB-174740-V9N0B1; KC00031599 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, W69780, 4th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 15 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, W69780, 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, W69780, 4th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Robert Earnest Clarence Ingram (Service No:W69780) served in the ACMF with 4th (WA) Battalion VDC from 26 April 1942 to 15 October 1945.
Clarence was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1904, eldest of seven children of Ernest Clarence Ingram (b1876 at Vegetable Creek, New South Wales) and his second wife Winifred (Winnie) Gillett (b1884 in Lancashire, England). Ernest (a Miner) and Winnie married in Collie, Western Australia in 1907 - Winnie (a Cotton Spinner) had immigrated in 1901, arriving in Maryborough QLD on board the Duke of Norfolk. Ernest had served in WWI (Private; Service No:3387), and was a Coal Miner in Maitland, New South Wales before moving to Western Australia in 1907. Ernest and Winnie settled at Collie Burn via Collie, where they raised their family and Ernest worked as a Miner and Taxi Driver.
Clarence worked as a Coal Miner at Collie Burn, and in 1927 in Collie married Janet Smith Norrie (b1912 in Aberdeen, Scotland) - Janet immigrated in 1910, arriving in Fremantle on board the Morea. Clarence and Janet settled in the Collie region - at Collie Burn and Collie - Cardiff - where they raised their family and Clarence was a Miner. The couple retired to Perth in the mid 1960s - Clarence died in 1969 and Janet in 1976.
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