Alan William AITKEN

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AITKEN, Alan William

Service Number:	WX15731
Enlisted:	13 August 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Armoured Regiment
Born:	Maylands, Western Australia, 3 October 1909
Home Town:	Youanmi, Sandstone, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Gold Miner
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 26 September 1985, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremated - Ashes scattered to the winds at Karrakatta Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

13 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, WX15731, 2nd/10th Armoured Regiment
19 Dec 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, WX15731, 2nd/10th Armoured Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of three brothers who served in WWII, Lance Corporal Alan William Aitken (Service No:WX15731) served with 2/10 Armoured Regiment from 13 August 1941 to 19 December 1944.

Alan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1909, second of six children of William Aitken (b1886 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Lilian Evelyn Marian McMillan (b1886 in Queensland). William and Lilian married in 1909 in Wagerup, where they settled and William was a Farmer. In the early 1920s William and Lilian moved to Pithara via Dalwalinu, where William was a Farmer. By 1940 William and Lilian had moved to Quairading, and then to Merredin - William was a Contractor.

Alan worked as a Farmer in Pithara via Dalwalinu, and was a Gold Miner at Youanmi via Sandstone in 1941 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Alan lived in the Merredin District - Hines Hill and Pantapin - where he was a Farm Hand. In 1956 in Merredin, Alan married Thelma Violet (b1915) and the couple lived Burracoppin and Meredin, where Alan was a Labourer (Water Supply), before retiring to Perth in the late 1970s. Alan died in 1985 and Thelma in 2010.

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