Alan Edward THOMAS

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THOMAS, Alan Edward

Service Number:	W21206
Enlisted:	18 December 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	61 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Victoria Park, Fremantle, Western Australia, 16 July 1923
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver's Assistant
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 26 June 2007, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

18 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W21206, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF
12 Jul 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W21206, 26th Infantry Battalion, embarked Brisbane for Torokina on board Duntroon
11 Dec 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W21206, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Torokina for Rabaul on board River Glenelg
14 Feb 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W21206, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Rabaul for Brisbane on board SS Lidvard
25 Jun 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W21206, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Alan Edward Thomas (Service No:W21206) enlisted in the ACMF on 18 December 1941 with 5 Garrison Battalion (WA) VDC, and served with Australian Artillery Training Battalion and 32 Australian Infantry Training Battalion. Private Thomas served in Torokina, Bougainville and Rabaul with 61 Infantry Battalion (12 July 1945 - 14 February 1946), and was attached to 61st Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 25 June 1946.

Alan was born in Victoria Park, Fremantle, WA in 1923, eldest of three children of Charles Edward Thomas (b1899 in Perth, WA) and Cramlintyne (Caroline) Stephens (b1901 in Boulder, WA). Charles was a Printer in 1922 when he and Caroline married in Perth, where they settled and raised their family. Charles served in WWI and WWII, and worked as a Printer, Bread Carter, Tramways Employee and Labourer.

Alan was a Truck Driver's Assistant in Perth when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, he worked as a Labourer in Perth where, in 1948 he married Edna Anne Beeson (b1925 in Mingenew, WA). Alan and Edna settled in Perth, where they raised their family and Alan worked as a Plasterer and Concreter before moving to Mandurah in 1980, where he was a Grano Worker. Edna died in 2004 and Alan in 2007.

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