Hamish Ralph PERROTT

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PERROTT, Hamish Ralph

Service Numbers:	V595492, VX86470
Enlisted:	9 January 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hastings, Victoria, Australia, 12 November 1921
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Machinist
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 November 1999, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warringal Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

9 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V595492, 111th Light Anti Aircraft Battery
17 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V595492, 111th Light Anti Aircraft Battery
18 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX86470, 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion
27 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX86470, 2nd/33rd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Hamish Ralph Perrott (Service No:VX86470) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V595492) with 11th AA Battery from 9 January 1942 until 17 August 1942 when he enlisted the next day - 'in the field' - in the AIF. Private Perrott served with 407 Heavy AA Gun Station and 33 Heavy AA Battery in New Guinea (9 April 1943 - 20 May 1944), and in Borneo (2 May 1945 - 9 February 1946). Private Perrott was attached to 2/33 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 27 May 1946. Private Perrott was the youngest of three brothers - David and Victor - who served in WWII.

Hamish was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1921, third of four children of Reuben Perrott (b1888 at Snapper Point, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria) and Linda Emma Lydia Higgins (b1895 in Melbourne, Victoria). Reuben (a Butcher) and Linda married in 1916 and lived in both Frankston and Northcote where they raised their family and Reuben worked as a Butcher and Labourer. By the mid 1930s the family had settled in Melbourne, where Reuben worked as a Builder's Labourer.

Hamish worked in Melbourne as a Machinist before enlisting in the Army and, following his Discharge, was working as a Press Operator in Melbourne in 1946 when he married Kathleen (Rita) Ryan (b1927 in Melbourne, Victoria). Hamish and Rita settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Hamish worked as a Brick Layer. Hamish died in 1993 and Rita in 2011.

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