FRASER, Ward Arnold
| Service Number: | TX16221 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 April 1945 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Infantry Training Battalions |
| Born: | Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, 4 August 1921 |
| Home Town: | Ulverstone, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, 5 December 1992, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Burnie Lawn Cemetery, Tasmania |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Apr 1945: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX16221, Infantry Training Battalions | |
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| 24 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX16221, Infantry Training Battalions |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ward was the eldest of ten children of Victor Arnold Stuart Fraser (b1897 in Railton, Tasmania) and Eileen Elizabeth Barker (b1901 in Penguin, Tasmania). Victor (a Butcher's Assistant) and Eileen married in 1921 in Rocky Cape, Tasmania. The family lived in Stanley, Burnie, and Wynyard where Victor was a Butcher. By 1936 the family moved to Tarraleah where Victor was a Labourer.
Ward enlisted initially in the ACMF (Service No:T30712; 6 Garrison Battalion) and in April 1945 was in Cairns QLD - 'In the Field' - when he enlisted in the Australian Army. He was a Sapper (Service No:TX16221) attached to 5 Infantry Training Battalion when he was Discharged in August 1945.
In 1943 Ward married Waveney Phyllis Wilson (b1920 in Launceston, Tasmania) in Burnie, Tasmania. The couple settled in Montello, Emu Bay and raised their family. Ward worked as a Painter. He died in 1992 and Waveney in 2002.
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