ROCHE, Andrew Gordon
| Service Number: | V103354 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Maryborough, Victoria, 15 July 1914 |
| Home Town: | Maryborough, Central Goldfields, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher (Casual Employment) |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, 1 May 1987, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Altona Memorial Park, Victoria https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/211975283/andrew-gordon-roche |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V103354 | |
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| 29 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V103354 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Andrew Gordon Roche (Service No:V103354) enlisted in the ACMF on 26 March 1941 as a Private attached to 26 Machine Gun Regiment. Promoted to Corporal (graded Clerk) on 12 August 1942, he was attached to AHQ (QES Branch) at Discharge on 29 May 1946. Corporal Roche was one of four siblings (Robert, John and James) who served in WWII.
Born in Maryborough, Victoria in 1914, Andrew was fourth of seven children of Robert Gubbins Roche (b1877 in Yackandandah, Victoria) and Alice Mongan (b1883 in Yackandandah, Victoria). Robert worked as a Sluicer and Miner at Allan's Flat and Osborne's Flat, and he and Alice married in 1909 in Owen's Flat via Yakkandandah. Robert and Alice settled in the Laancoorie District - Creswick and Maryborough - where they raised their family and Robert worked as a Miner and Railways Employee.
Andrew had intermittent employment in Maryborough through the 1930s, and was a Casual Butcher in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Andrew was appointed as a Clerk to the Postmaster Generals Department, working in Maryborough before moving to Melbourne in the late 1950s. Andrew died in 1987.
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