BODINNER, Ronald Charles
| Service Number: | WX21549 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Boulder, Western Australia, 27 August 1910 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 January 1982, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Kyabram Civil Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Aug 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, ex Fremantle to Suez per HMAT US Convoy 16 | |
| 6 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, ex Suez to Fremantle per L1 | |
| 20 Sep 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, ex Cairns to Milne Bay per Steinmitz | |
| 1 Nov 1943: | Wounded Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, GSW scalp - evacuated by air | |
| 10 Jun 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX21549, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Born in Boulder, WA in 1910, Ron was the eldest son of Henry (Harry) Bodinner (b1880 in Quorn, South Australia) and first wife Esther Minnie Carne (aka Minnie; b1884 in Sandhurst, Victoria). Harry (a Blacksmith) and Minnie married in Boulder WA in 1909, and settled there. Following Minnie's death in 1918, Harry remarried.
Ron was a Machine Miner in Boulder WA, and in 1938 married Margaret (Maggie) May McCulloch (b1920) in Boulder WA. In April 1942 Ron enlisted in the Australian Army (Private; Service No:WX21549) and served with 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion in the Middle East and New Guinea. He was WiA in NG in November 1943 and evacuated by air. In June 1944 he was transferred to Boulder Hospital with Malaria and Asthma and was Discharged.
Ron and Maggie remained in Boulder WA (where Ron was a Miner) until the early 1950s when they relocated to Tuart Hill in Perth WA. The couple settled in Perth and Ron worked as a Barman until Maggie's death in 1978, when he moved to Melbourne, Victoria. Ron died in 1982.
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