ROBERTS, Olliver David
| Service Number: | V372235 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 18 December 1902 |
| Home Town: | Mulwala, Corowa Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 30 December 1985, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Warrnambool Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V372235, 17th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 10 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V372235, 17th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Oliver David Roberts (Service No:V372235) served in the ACMF with 17 Battalion VDC from 23 March 1942 to 10 October 1945.
Oliver was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1902, eldest of four children of Oliver David Roberts Snr (b1860 in Creswick, Victoria) and Annie Hinde (b1872 in Balranald, New South Wales). Oliver Snr and Annie married in 1902 in Melbourne, and moved to Mulwala, New South Wales in 1905, where Oliver Snr was a Farmer. Oliver Snr was a member (and Bandmaster) of the Yarrawonga Brass Band in the 1880s, and was a Tobacconist in Berrigan, New South Wales when he and Annie married. Oliver Snr died in 1926.
Oliver was a Farmer in Mulawa, New South Wales and in 1931 in Melbourne married his first wife Evelyn Amelia McFarlane (b1910 in Yarrawonga, Victoria). Oliver and Evelyn settled in Mulawa, where they raised their family and Oliver was a Farmer in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF. In the late 1940s Oliver and Evelyn moved to Upotipotpom, Benalla, Victoria where Oliver was a Farmer. Following Evelyn's death in 1954, Oliver remarried in 1955 to Louisa Martin, and the couple lived in Brighton in Melbourne where Oliver was a Laminex (Process) Worker. In the early 1970s Oliver and Louisa retired to Ballarat - Oliver died in Warrnambool in 1985.