Hector George ROLLASON

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ROLLASON, Hector George

Service Numbers:	VX67644, VX67644
Enlisted:	29 December 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 February 1913
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Baker
Died:	Emphysema, Mornington Peninsular, Victoria, Australia, 18 November 1988, aged 75 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
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World War 2 Service

29 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644
16 Mar 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644, embarked Cairns for Morotai per Sea Barb
22 Apr 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644, embarked Morotai for Tarakan
20 Jun 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644, embarked Tarakan for Morotai
19 Jul 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , embarked Morotia for Balikapan
23 Dec 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644, embarked Balikapan for Brisbane
10 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX67644

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Corporal Hector George Rollison (Service No:VX67644) enlisted in the Army on 29 December 1941 and served with 2/108 Australian General Transport Coy in Morotai, Tarakan and Balikapan. Lance Corporal Rollison was Discharged on 10 January 1946.

Born in 1913 in Melbourne Victoria, Hector was the eldest of two children of Walter Alfred Rollason (b1881 in Maldon, Victoria) and Mary Ann Connell (b1878 in Melbourne, Victoria). Walter (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1918 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Walter worked as a Labourer.

Hector worked as a Baker in Melbourne where, in 1937, he married Muriel Ivy Langford (b1913 in Melbourne, Victoria). Hector and Muriel settled in Melbourne where he was a Baker when he enlisted in the Army - and returned to Melbourne and work as a Baker following his Discharge. Muriel died in 1985 and Hector in 1988.

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