EVANS, William Albert
| Service Numbers: | V36183, VX60450 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
| Born: | Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1916 |
| Home Town: | Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Soap Factory Hand |
| Died: | Lindenow South via Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 21 June 1994, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drouin West Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V36183 | |
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| 1 Aug 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V36183, 14 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 5 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX60450, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
| 8 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX60450, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V36183 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal William Albert Evans (Service No:VX60450) initially served in the Militia (Service No:189896) from 1 September 1936 to 9 May 1939, and the ACMF (Private; Service No:V36183) with 14th Battalion from 3 July 1940 to 1 August 1941 before enlisting in the AIF on 5 August 1941. Lance Corporal Evans served in the Middle East (21 November 1941 - 10 March 1942), completed two Tours of Duty in New Guinea between 28 August 1942 and 30 May 1944, and was in Borneo from 2 June 1945 to 28 December 1945. Lance Corporal Evans was attached to 2/28 Australian Supply Depot Platoon at Discharge on 8 January 1946.
Born in Williamstown in Melbourne, Victoria in 1916, Bert was fifth of six children of William Evans (b1881 at Mt Egerton via Ballarat, Victoria) and Florence May Phillips (b1880 in Gordon, Moorabool, Victoria). William (a Miner) and Florence married in 1905 in Melbourne, and lived at Mt Egerton, where William was a Miner, until 1914 when the family moved to Melbourne, William worked for the Railways as a Fireman until the 1930s, when he returned to Mt Egerton and worked as a Prospector. Florence remained in Melbourne.
Bert worked in Melbourne as a Labourer and Soap Factory Hand before enlisting in the Army. In 1944 in Melbourne, he married Olive (Pat) Raymond Jordan (nee Hartley; b1917 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Pat (a Widow) was in the WRANS (Service No:WR1089). Following Discharge, Bert and Pat settled in Melbourne - Pat was working as a Saleswoman in 1949, and Bert worked as an Evaporator, Packer and Labourer. In the mid 1970s Bert and Pat moved to Stratford, where they are described in the Electoral Rolls as Primary Producers. Bert died in 1994 and Pat in 2012.
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