LANG, Ronald Leslie
| Service Numbers: | V37716, 147090 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 1 January 1944, “I am a conscientious objector of taking the oath. I will willingly serve my country in a non combatant form’ (National Archives Australia) |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Stores Depots |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 August 1916 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Librarian |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 August 1999, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jan 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), V37716, 22nd (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), “I am a conscientious objector of taking the oath. I will willingly serve my country in a non combatant form’ (National Archives Australia) | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 147090, RAAF Stores Depots | |
| 4 Apr 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, 147090, RAAF Stores Depots, Leading Aircraftman | |
| Date unknown: | Enlisted V37716 | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged V37716 |
Help us honour Ronald Leslie Lang's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ronald Leslie Lang (Service No:V37716) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 1 January 1944 and was attached to 22 Battalion 3 Div. He attested that he was 'a conscientious objector of taking the oath.... will willingly serve my country in a non combatant form' (National Archives Australia). On 10 February 1944 he enlisted in the RAAF (Service No:147090) and was a Leading Aircraftman attached to 1 Stores Depot when he was Discharged on 9 April 1946).
Born in 1916 in Melbourne Victoria, Ronald was the eldest of two children of Clarence Leslie Lang (b1889 in Melbourne, Victoria) and first wife Augusta May Duncan Hollingworth (b1883 in Brompton, South Australia). Clarence (a Printer in Melbourne) and Augusta married in 1914 in Melbourne, Victoria. By 1921 Clarence was a Minister of the Church of Christ. He remarried following Augusta's death in 1942.
Ronald worked as a Librarian at the Library for the Blind in Melbourne and was living with his parents when he enlisted in WWII. In 1945 in Melbourne he married Sylvia Gladys Rogers (b1925 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ronald and Sylvia settled in Melbourne where Ronald worked as a Clerk for the Braille Library and later as a Clerk at Defence Standard Laboratories. Ronald died in 1999 and Sylvia in 2001.