Maurice Stephen ATWELL

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ATWELL, Maurice Stephen

Service Number:	V64777
Enlisted:	15 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Rainbow, Victoria, Australia, 11 July 1915
Home Town:	Rainbow, Hindmarsh, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 24 May 1990, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Port Fairy Public Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

15 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64777, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF
2 Jun 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64777, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Cairns for Lae per Duntroon
15 Feb 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64777, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Torokina for Sydney
1 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64777, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Maurice Stephen Atwell (Service No:V6777) enlisted in the ACMF on 15 April 1941. He served with 7th Infantry Battalion in Darwin, NT (22 February 1942 - 26 September 1943) and in Lae, and Munda and Treasury Islands, and Torokina. Private Atwell was attached to 7th Infantry battalion at Discharge on 1 April 1946. He was one of six siblings (Cliff, Harold, Albert, Walter and Cyril) who served in WWII.

Maurice was born in Rainbow, Victoria in 1915, fourth of twelve children of George Alfred Atwell (b1884 in Templars, South Australia) and Amy Eleanor Rogers (b1888 in East Cannum, Victoria). George (a Farmer) and Amy married in 1909 in Rainbow where they settled and raised their family and George was a Farmer.

Maurice worked as a Labourer in Rainbow prior to his enlistment in the ACMF. Following his Discharge, he worked as a Station Hand at Hamilton and Willaura, where abt 1950 he married Kathleen Lyla Adams/Campbell (b1916). Maurice and Kathleen lived in Willaura until the late 1950s when they settled at Nareen, Harrow where they raised their family and Maurice was a Farmer until retiring to Portland in the late 1970s. Maurice died in 1990 and Kathleen in 1999.

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