Robert Edward NOBBS

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NOBBS, Robert Edward

Service Number:	QX37890
Enlisted:	20 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 19 June 1921
Home Town:	Gympie, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 6 May 2005, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gympie Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

20 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX37890, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
16 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX37890, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Robert was the fourth of six children of Thomas Nobbs (b1883 in Durham, England) and Alice Jessie Cowan Holbrook (b1891 in Caboolture, QLD). Thomas was four years of age when he immigrated with his parents and siblings, arriving in Maryborough QLD in 1888 on board the Merkara. Thomas was a Labourer at Bunya Creek in Wide Bay, QLD in 1916 when he and Jessie married. Thomas and Jessie lived in Bunya Creek where Thomas was a Labourer before moving to Gympie in the 1930's where Thomas was a Dairy Farmer.

Robert was a Labourer in Gympie QLD when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1941. He served as a Private (Service Nos:QX37890/Q105832) and was attached to 2/9 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in 1946. Brother Herbert Thomas (Private; Service Nos:QX37902/Q16093) and several Brothers and Sisters-in-Law also served in WWII.

Robert worked as a Labourer in Kybong via Gympie and lived with his parents in Gympie until the 1960s. He became a Linesman in the 1950s and in 1963 Robert married Vera Jessie Carswell (b1920 in Gympie, QLD). They settled in Gympie where Robert worked as a Linesman. Robert died in 2005 and Vera in 2007.

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