PEDDER, Robert Aubrey
| Service Numbers: | VX52253, VX52253 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 12 March 1921 |
| Home Town: | Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer's Assistant |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 January 2002, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 27 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, VX52253, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Jun 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX52253, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Australia for Middle East | |
| 28 Mar 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX52253, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for RTA | |
| 7 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX52253, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Cairns for Aitape on board Thomas Corwin | |
| 19 Nov 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, VX52253, embarked Wewak for Brisbane on board Ormiston | |
| 6 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, VX52253, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Warrant Officer II Robert Aubrey Pedder (Service No:VX52253) enlisted in the AIF on 27 March 1941 as a Private attached to 2 Training Battalion, and served in the Middle East with 2/8 Infantry Battalion (28 June 1941 - 28 March 1942) and Adelaide River, NT (8 June 1942 - 17 June 1943). Corporal Pedder then served with 2/8 Infantry Battalion in New Guinea (7 November 1944 - 19 November 1945) and was a Warrant Officcer II attached to 2/8 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 6 May 1946. Younger brother Ernie was KiA in New Guinea.
Born in Perth, WA in 1921, Robert was the eldest of two children of Ernest Anton Pedder (b1874 in Hahndorf, South Australia) and his second wife Louisa Agnes Philpot (b1891 in Portland, Victoria). Ernest (a Travelling Salesman) had enlisted in the AIF on 6 September 1916, and was in Melbourne in 1917 when he was Discharged as Medically Unfit. Ernest and Louisa (a Dressmaker in Melbourne) married in Adelaide, South Australia in 1918, and moved to Perth, WA where they raised their family and Ernest was a Salesman for Ibis (South Australia) Shoe Company and a member of the Commercial Travellers' Association of WA. Following Ernest's death in 1924, Louisa and her two sons returned to Victoria, where she remarried.
Robert was working in Warragul, Victoria as a Grocer's Assistant when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, he worked as a Shop Assistant in Melbourne and, in 1946 in Warragul, married Florence (Florrie) Isabel Handley (b1921 in Warragul, Victoria). Robert and Isabel settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Robert was a Motor Trimmer (in partnership - Mellish & Peddler) until 1954. From the mid 1950s, Robert worked as a Clerk. Robert died in 2002 and Florrie in 2016.
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