CARLTON, William Henry
| Service Number: | VX4714 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/5th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 March 1919 |
| Home Town: | Cardross, Mildura Shire, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Agricultural Drainer |
| Died: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 31 August 1959, aged 40 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Victoria Cremation Memorial, Springvale, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX4714 | |
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| 17 Oct 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX4714, 2nd/5th Field Ambulance, embarked Melbourne for Middle East | |
| 11 Feb 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX4714, embarked Middle East via Bombay for Adelaide on board Dilwara | |
| 6 Dec 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX4714, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board Tarooma | |
| 21 Oct 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX4714, : embarked Milne Bay for Cairns on board President Johnson | |
| 15 Jun 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX4714, embarked Cairns for Morotai en route for service in Balikapan | |
| 3 Sep 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX4714, embarked Balikapan for Brisbane | |
| 25 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX4714 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal William Henry Carlton (Service No:VX4714) enlisted in the AIF at Mildura on 3 November 1939 as a Private attached to 2/7 Battalion, and was promoted to Corporal on 9 December 1939. Corporal Carlton served in the Middle East with 2/5 Field Ambulance and No 6 Coy AASC (17 October 1940 to 11 February 1942). Corporal Carlton then embarked from Townsville for Port Moresby on 6 December 1942 on board the Tarooma, embarking from Milne Bay for Cairns on 21 October 1943 on board the President Johnson. Promoted to Lance Corporal on 17 August 1944, he served in Morotai and Balikapan (15 June 1945 to 3 September 1945), and was attached to 2/6 Coy AASC at Discharge on 25 September 1945. His father James served in WWI and WWII.
Jim was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1920, youngest (and only surviving) of two sons of James Bennett Carlton (b1887 at Mt Egerton, Victoria) and Rosa (Rosie) Anna Turner (b1888 in Hamilton, Victoria). James worked as a Miner at Mt Egerton, a Labourer in Glenorchy and a Fitter's Assistant and Driver in Melbourne. He was a Wood Merchant in Melbourne in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF - serving in France, and on re-enlistment in 1918, in Melbourne with 3rd District Guard. James and Rosie married in 1919 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and James served in the Militia, was a Guard and Caretaker at Domain Camp, and a Car Builder. In 1925 James and Rosie, with their surviving son, moved to Cardross via Red Hills, Mildura where James was a Horticulturalist. James served with the ACMF in WWII, and he and Rosie lived briefly in Euston, Riverina, NSW in the late 1940s, returning to Victoria in 1948 and settling in Morwell, where James was a Labourer.
Jim worked as an Agricutlrual Drainer at Cardross via Red Hills, Mildura prior to enlisting in the Army in 1939. In 1943 in Coburg, Victoria he married Roma Betty Moss (b1924 in Melbourne, Victoria), and following his Discharge, Jim and Roma settled at Cardross via Red Hills, Mildura, where Jim was a Horticulturalist. Following Jim's death in 1959, Roma lived in Mildura where she worked as a Clerk, before moving to Wentworth NSW in the late 1970s and working as a Clerk. Roma died in 2013.
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