KAUFMAN, Norman Roy
| Service Number: | VX91357 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 February 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 13 March 1919 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mechanic |
| Died: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 28 November 2008, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Portarlington Cemetery, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance: |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX91357 | |
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| 16 Jan 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX91357 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Signalman Norman Roy Kaufman (Service No:VX91357) enlisted in the Australian Army on 6 February 1943 and was attached to 202 Australian Comp AA Regiment Signals Section when he was Discharged on 16 January 1947. Signalman Kaufman was one of six siblings who served in WWII - his brother Sqaudron Leader Keith Walter Kaufmann described Norm's service as ' Number four (fourth sibling serving) came out of the Post Office and went to New Guinea laying telephone lines and collected dengue, footrot and mouthrot' (AWM: Interview by Laurence (Laurie) Field).
Born in 1919 in Ascot Vale Victoria, Norm was the fifth of eight children of Henry Kauffman (b1884 at 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 and Mary were living at Ascot Vale when Henry enlisted in the AIF for service in WWI (Captain) and he remianed in the Army. In WWII Henry was a Major (Service No:V159890) when he died in 1944.
Norm was a Mechanic in Melbourne when he enlisted in the Army in 1943 - employment he returned to following his Discharge. In 1947 he married Marian Teresa Kennedy (b1924 in Bright, Alpine Shire, Victoria) - Marian was a Signalwoman with the AWAS. Norm and Marian settled in Melbourne where Norm worked as a Mechanic and was a PMG Employee. Norm died in Geelong in 2008 and Marian in 2018.
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