TATE, Arthur Fred
| Service Number: | W70630 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Durham, England, 1 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Bridgetown, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Truck Driver |
| Died: | Bridgetown, Western Australia, 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 26 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W70630, 5th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 15 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W70630, 5th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W70630, 5th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Arthur Fred Tate (Service No:W70630) served in the ACMF with 5th Battalion (WA) VDC from 26 April 1942 to 15 October 1945. Private Tate had enlisted in the AIF for service in WWI (Private; Service No:W16039) - serving from January to June 1918 and Discharged as 'unfit for service'.
Arthur was born in Durham, England in 1885, third of seven children of Joseph Tate (b1857 in Durham, England) and Phyllis Askew (b1857 in Durham, England). Joseph (a Farmer) and Phyllis married in 1880 in Durham, where they settled and raised their family and Joseph was a Farmer.
Arthur worked with his father as a Farmer's Assistant, and in 1912 in Durham married Elizabeth Frances Park (b1886 in Durham, England) - Elizabeth was an Assistant Innkeeper in Houghton le Spring in Durham. Arthur and Elizabeth immigrated in December 1912, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Australind and settling at Jarnadup (later renamed Jardee) via Pemberton where Arthur was a Mill Hand. By the early 1920s Arthur and Elizabeth had settled in Bridgetown, where they raised their family and Arthur worked as a Farmer, Truck Driver, Mill Hand and Road Foreman. Arthur died in 1959 and Elizabeth in 1963.