Bruce Phillip WINZAR

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WINZAR, Bruce Phillip

Service Number:	VX64321
Enlisted:	24 October 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 19 September 1920
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 August 1992, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Altona Memorial Park, Victoria Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

24 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX64321
23 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX64321

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Bruce Phillip Winzar (Service No:VX64321) enlisted in the Australian Army on 24 October 1941 and was attached to 2/7 Field Coy when he was Discharged on 23 October 1945.

Born in Melbourne Victoria in 1920, Bruce was the youngest of five children of Christmas (Chris) Henry Winzar (b1885 in Oxfordshire, England) and Alice Esther Martine (b1891 in Tylden, Victoria). Chris (a Motor Mechanic) and Alice married in 1910 in Kyneton, Victoria. Chris served in WWI (Service No:252) and following his Discharge, he and Alice settled in Melbourne Ports, Victoria where they raised their family and Chris was a Fitter.

Bruce was serving in the Army in 1943 when he married Lorna Beryl Pigdon (b1924 in Queenscliff, Victoria. Bruce and Lorna settled in Melbourne where Bruce worked as a Carpenter. Lorna died in 1988 and Bruce in 1992.

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