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Private Victor Willard Paine (Service No:V206576) initially served in the Militia (Private; Service No:94935) from 11 February 1935, enlisting in the ACMF on 8 March 1942. Private Paine served with 13 Armoured Regiment and was attached to Master General of the Ordnance (MGO) Branch Design Division at Discharge (medically unfit ) on 19 August 1944.

Victor was born in Jubblepore, India in 1913 (although his birth is registered in Fremantle, WA), ninth of twelve children of Horace Richard Paine (b1866 in Sussex, England) and Alethea Adelaide Willard (b1881 in Tamil Nadu, India). Horace (a British Soldier) and Alethea married in 1901 in Jubbulpore, and lived in India, where Horace was Staff Sergeant (Farrier; Regimental No:68493) attached to Royal Field Artillery 12th Ammunition Diviision (1888 - 1912). Following his Discharge, Horace and Alethea lived in Bombay, where Horace was Transport Officer (1918) and Iraq, where he was an employee of the Anglo Persion Oil Coy in Mohammerah (1919). In 1925, Horace and Alethea immigrated with four of their children, arriving in Fremantle WA from Basrah on board the Khyber (son Archie and two daughters had immigrated in 1924). Horace and Alethea lived in Lilydale via Busselton where Horace was a Smith and Fettler, and in the early 1930s moved to Perth, where Horace was a Caretaker. By 1934 Horace and Alethea had settled in Melbourne.

Victor was eleven years of age when he arrived in Fremantle, WA with his parents. He worked as a Despatch Clerk and Taxi/Hire Car Driver in Melbourne where, in 1938, he married Marjorie Ethel McQuinn (b1920 iin Melbourne, Victoria). Victor and Marjorie settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Victor worked as a Driver. Victor died in 1965, and Marjorie (who remarried in 1975) died in 1980.