Albert Arthur ATWELL

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ATWELL, Albert Arthur

Service Numbers:	V2225544, VX140512
Enlisted:	9 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Workshops Units and Elements
Born:	Rainbow, Victoria, Australia, 19 December 1921
Home Town:	Rainbow, Hindmarsh, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, 9 February 2022, aged 100 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Camperdown Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Camperdown, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

9 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, V2225544, Infantry Training Battalions
18 May 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, V2225544, 23/21 Infantry Battalion AMF
19 May 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140512
6 Jul 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX140512, Workshops Units and Elements, embarked for Port Moresby per ‘K’
4 Sep 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX140512, embarked Port Moresby for Brisbane per Day Star
4 May 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX140512, embarked Brisbane for Morotai per Sea Cat
22 Jan 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX140512, embarked Morotai for Brisbane
11 Jun 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140512

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Albert Arthur Atwell (Service Nos:VX140512/V2225544) initially served in the ACMF from 9 March 1942 to 18 May 1943 and was in Darwin NT with 23rd/21st Infantry Battalion (9 May 1942 - 28 January 1943). Sapper Atwell was at Kapooka on 19 May 1943 when he enlisted in the AIF, serving with 9 Australian Workshop and Park Coy RAE in New Guinea (6 July 1943 - 4 September 1944) and Morotai (4 May 1945 - 22 January 1946). Sapper Atwell was attached to 9 Australian Workshop and Park Coy RAE at Discharge on 11 June 1946. He was one of six brothers (Maurice, Cliff, Harold, Walter and Cyril) who served in WWII.

Born in Rainbow, Victoria in 1921, Albert was eighth 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, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and George was a Farmer.

Albert worked in Raibow as a Farm Labourer before enlisting in the Army and following his Discharge was a Labourer in Rainbow in 1946 when he married Alison Jean Christian (b1925 in Rainbow, Victoria). By 1949 Albert was a Farmer and he and Alison lived at Kennedy's Creek in Port Campbell, Heldentenor, Lake Charm nr Hopetoun and Swift's Creek in Omeo. In 1980 they were living in Bruthen in Gippsland where Albert was a Labourer before retiring to Camperdown. Alison died in 2009 and Albert in 2022.

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