Keith Frederick WILSON

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WILSON, Keith Frederick

Service Number:	V77738
Enlisted:	15 August 1940
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 1 October 1915
Home Town:	Albury, Albury Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Albury, New South Wales , Australia , 19 October 1997, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Glenmorus Gardens Albury Crematorium and Lawn Cemetery,New South Wales
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World War 2 Service

15 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, V77738
14 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, V77738

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Staff Sergeant Keith Frederick Wilson (Service No:V77738) enlisted in the ACMF on 15 August 1940 with 2nd Ammunition Coy as a Private. Promoted to Corporal in 1943, he was attached to 1 Australian Commando Training Battalion - Ammunition Examiner. Staff Sergeant Wilson was attached to HQ Australian Training Centre (Jungle Warfare) and was Discharged on 14 December 1945. Bother Kevin also served in the ACMF.

Keith was born in Albury, NSW in 1915, eldest of three children of John Frederick Wilson (b1884 in Albury, NSW) and Dorothea Catherine Scharfenberg (b1893 in Albury, NSW). John (a Cordial and Ice Manufacturer) and Dorothea married in 1928 in ALbury, where they settled and raised their family and John was Cordial and Ice Manufacturer.

Keith worked in Albury as Truck Driver for his father before enlisting in the ACMF. He was working in Albury as a Refrigeration Mechanic for his father in 1951 when he married Monica Imelda Pye (b1919 in Port Fairy, Victoria). Keith and Monica married in Port Fairy, and settled in Albury, NSW where they raised their family. In 1954 Keith and his brother Kevin became partners with their father in the family Cordial and Ice Manufacturing business (JF Wilson & Sons). Monica died in 1991 and Keith in 1997.

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