Richard William MORRIS

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MORRIS, Richard William

Service Number:	W71184A
Enlisted:	21 July 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Trafalgar, Western Australia, 21 April 1905
Home Town:	Kendenup, Plantagenet Shire, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Kendenup, Western Australia, 15 November 1980, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremation MCB-282284-T6R9R2
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World War 2 Service

21 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W71184A, 6th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
15 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W71184A, 6th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W71184A, 6th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Richard William Morris (Service No:W71184A) served in the ACMF with 6th Battalion (WA) VDC from 21 April 1942 to 15 October 1945. Private Morris had served previously served for six years with the Militia.

Richard was born in Trafalgar via Boulder, WA in 1905, eldest of three children of Richard Morris Snr (b1874 in Gawler, South Australia) and Hannah Maud Marion Shepley (b1875 in Parkes, NSW). Richard (a Miner) and Hannah married in Boulder, WA in 1904 and by 1907 had moved to Broken Hill, NSW where they lived at Willyama. Following Richard's death in 1913, Hannah moved with her children to Perth, WA and later to Kendenup via Albany, WA.

Richard lived with his Mother and sisters in Subiaco where he worked as a Motor Driver before moving to Boulder in the 1930s. Richard was working as a Miner in Boulder in 1937 when he married Christina (Tean) May Sandilands (b1912 in Boulder, WA). By 1943 Richard and Tean were settled in Kendenup via Albany where they raised their family and Richard worked as a Farm Hand. Richard died in 1980 and Tean in 2009.

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