MARSHALL, Clarence Cecil
| Service Number: | V367705 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 May 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 15 June 1902 |
| Home Town: | Ellinbank, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Dairy Farmer |
| Died: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 13 September 1988, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sale Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 May 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V367705, 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 19 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V367705, 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Clarence Cecil Marshall (Service No:V367705) served in the ACMF with 13th Battalion (Vic) VDC from 31 May 1942 to 19 September 1945. His youngest brother Mervyn (RAAF) was KiA in Ghana, Africa in 1942.
Jock was born in Warragul, Victoria in 1902, eldest of six children of David Marshall (b1876 in Sale, Victoria) and Annie Lucinda Rodda (b1881 in Daylesford, Victoria). David (a Farmer) and Annie married in 1901 in Warragul, where they settled and raised their family and David was a Farmer. David and Annie lived in Warragul, Ellinbank, Melbourne and Sale, where David was a Farmer, Contractor, Labourer and Driver.
Jock was a Dairy Farmer at Ellinbank in 1927 when he married Victoria (Queenie) Regina Mary Cropley (b1907 in Warragul) in Warragul. Jock and Queenie settled at Ellinbank where Jock was a Dairy Farmer, then through the late 1920s/early 1930s was a Contractor in partneship with his father in Melbourne. In the mid 1930s Jock and Queenie returned to Ellinbank, and Jock was a Dairy Farmer when he enlisted in the ACMF in 1942. In the late 1940s Jock was in partnership with his Uncle (Harold Christopher Rodda) as Avon Tile Manufacturers, before returning to Sale where he was a Dairy Farmer. Jock died in 1988 and Queenie in 2000.
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