HUNTER, Robert Bayley
| Service Numbers: | W7825, WX18985 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 February 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Bombardier |
| Last Unit: | 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Northam, Western Australia, 25 June 1915 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Kalamunda, Western Australia, 1977, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W7825, 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 7 Jan 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W7825, 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 13 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, WX18985 | |
| 18 Nov 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, WX18985 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Robert Bayley Hunter (Service No:W7825) enlisted in the ACMF on 20 February 1941. He was attached to 11 Infantry Battalion VDC when he discharged on 7 January 1942, to enlist in the AIF a fortnight later as a Corporal (Service No:WX18985). Corporal Hunter served with 124 General Transport Coy and 2/28th Infantry Battalion. He served as Lance Corporal with 2/4 Machine Gun Reinforcements and 25 Anti Artillery Battery and successsfully completed courses at the School of Artillery, where his Instructor described him as 'Tough wiry type. Keen active and aggressive' (National Archives Australia: Service Records). Bombardier Hunter was attached to 25 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery when he was Discharged on 18 November 1946.
Born in 1915 in Northam WA, Bob was the youngest of three children of William Lambert Hunter (b1875 in Auckland, New Zealand) and second wife Blanche Maud Penny (b1874 in Adelaide, South Australia). William was a Warehouseman in New Zealand before coming to Western Australia and was a Publican in Norseman WA in 1908 when he and Blanche (a Typist in Mt Malcolm, Coolgardie, WA) married in Northam WA. William and Blanche lived in Gwalia WA where William was a Publican before moving to Rottnest Island in 1914 where William was a Government Official. By 1917 the family was living at Botherling via Goomalling WA where William was an Agricuturalist, He died in 1918.
Bob worked as a Salesman in Perth and Greenmount WA and in 1965 married Joyce Spencer Stewart (nee Job; b1920 in Clare, South Australia). Bob died in 1977 at Kalamunda in WA (BMD WA: Registration No:79/77).