KAUFMAN, Ronald Thomas
| Service Number: | VX39366 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Workshops Units and Elements |
| Born: | Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 9 January 1921 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mail Officer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1993, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 16 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39366 | |
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| 13 Sep 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39366, Workshops Units and Elements, 2/4 Army Field Workshops per HMT 'HH' for Middle East | |
| 1 Sep 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39366, Workshops Units and Elements, 2/4 Field Workshops ex Middle East for Adelaide per 'Glen K' | |
| 7 Jan 1944: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, Workshops Units and Elements, 2/4 Base Workshops | |
| 5 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39366 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Craftsman Ronald Thomas Kaufman (Service No:VX39366) enlisted in the Australian Army on 16 January 1941. Graded as a Fitter and then a Mechanic, he served with 2/4 Tank Workshops, 2/4 Base Workshops and was attached to 2/4 Army Field Workshops when he was Discharged on 5 October 1945. Craftsman Kaufman was one of six siblings who served in WWII, and his service was described by his brother Squadron Leader Kaufman as 'the next one (Ron) went to the Middle East, to Cairo, and he was in Transport Command there - vehicles, motor vehicles' (AWM: interview by Laurence (Laurie) Fields).
Born in 1921 in Ascot Vale Victoria, Ron was the sixth of eight children of Henry Kaufmann (b1884 in Box Hill, Victoria) and Mary Ann May Pigdon (b1892 in Queenscliff, Victoria). Henry was a Farmer when he enlisted for the Boer War (Trooper; Service No:867) and a Clerk in 1911 when he and Mary married in Queenscliff, Victoria. Henry enlisted for service in WWI (Captain) and remained in the Army. He was a Major (Service No:V159890) in WWII when he died in 1944.
Ron was a Mail Officer in Melbourne when he enlisted in the Army, and in 1945 in Melbourne Victoria he married Norma Lillian Stewart (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ron and Norma settled in Melbourne where Ron worked as a Public Servant before becoming a Teacher in the early 1950's. Ron died in 1993 and Norma in 2015.
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