BRUCE, William Charles
| Service Number: | V511640 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Casualty Clearing Stations WW2 |
| Born: | East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 August 1904 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Unemployed Printer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 1977, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne The Victorian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V511640 | |
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| 25 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V511640, Australian Army Medical Corps (WW2), embarked Townsville for Torokina on board the Ormiston | |
| 21 Feb 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V511640, Casualty Clearing Stations WW2 , embarked Torokina for Sydney | |
| 10 Jul 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V511640 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private William Charles Bruce (Service No:V511640) enlisted in the ACMF on 9 January 1942 - in his Attestation Papers he stated he had served four years in Senior Cadets and three years in the Militia (Sergeant; 40th Battery 22nd Brigade). Private Bruce served in Torokina (25 March 1945 - 21 February 1946), and was attached to 109 Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACSS) at Discharge on 10 July 1946. Older brother George (Private; Service No:3026) was KiA in the Battle of Fromelles in 1916.
Bill was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1904, youngest of four children of George O'Connor Bruce (b1865 in Beechworth, Victoria) and Elizabeth Morgan Clarke (b1868 at Woodvale via Warnambool, Victoria). George and Elizabeth married in 1889 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and George worked as a Compositor/Printer.
Like his father and older brother, Bill worked as a Compositor/Printer in Melbourne, although he was unemployed in January 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge in 1946, Bill worked in Melbourne as a Printer and in 1953 married Inez Hazel Abbott (b1918 in Newport, Melbourne Ports, Victoria) - Inez was working in St Kilda as a Machinist. Bill and Inez settled in Melbourne, where Bill worked as a Printer until retirement. Bill died in 1977 and Inez in 2004.
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