LANGFORD, William John
| Service Number: | V506316 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 30 March 1911 |
| Home Town: | Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 2003, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V506316 | |
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| 14 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V506316 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private William John Langford (Service No:V506316) enlisted in the ACMF on 1 February 1943 and was attached to 1 Farm Coy. Private Langford served in the Northern Territory (15 May 1943 - 24 June 1944) and was atatched to 2 Farm Coy at Discharge on 14 December 1944.
Born in 1911 in Warragul Victoria, Bill was the second of eight children of John (Jack) James Langford (b1882 in Rochester, Victoria) and Rhoda Grace Hinkley (b1891 in Casterton, Victoria). Jack (a Labourer) and Rhoda married in 1909 in Warragul, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Jack was a Labourer and Dairy Farmer.
Bill was a Grocer in Warragul, where in 1936 he married Dulcie Gwendolyn Mark (b1914 in Smeaton, Victoria) - Dulcie was a Tailoress in Warragul. Bill and Dulcie settled in Warragul, where Bill was a Grocer until the mid 1950s when the family moved to Melbourne, where Bill worked as a Sales Representative. Bill and Dulcie returned to Warragul, where they both died within a few days of each other in January 2003.
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