Victor NELSON

NELSON, Victor

Service Number: WX28716
Enlisted: 3 August 1942, Port Headland, WA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion
Born: Kellerberrin, WA, 1 January 1921
Home Town: Babakin, Bruce Rock, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Hand
Died: Merredin, WA, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered
Cemetery: Merredin Cemetery, Western Australia
Memorials: Bruce Rock Ardath & Babakin R.S.S.A.I.L.A. Honour Roll, Bruce Rock District WW2 Roll of Honour, Bruce Rock Indigenous War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Aug 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX28716, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Port Headland, WA
4 Jun 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX28716, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William and Eliza NELSON

Private Victor Nelson was born on 21 January 1921 in Kellerberrin, WA.. He was a Farm Hand prior to the war and enlisted in the Australian Army at Port Hedland in 1942.  Private Nelson served in the Australian Imperial Force from 1942 to 1946, and saw action in the South Pacific region.  He was discharged on the 4th June 1946 following the end of World War II, returning via the ship 'Strathford Victory' to Brisbane.

Victor married Elsie Katherine SPRATT in 1958 in Dundas WA and had 8 children,

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