ANDERSON, Alan Stuart
| Service Numbers: | V245031, VX130439 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Beaufort, Victoria, Australia , 29 January 1924 |
| Home Town: | Trawalla, Pyrenees, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 6 July 2010, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria Ballarat Crematorium, Doveton Street North, Ballarat |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245031, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 26 Feb 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245031, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 27 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX130439, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 17 Dec 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX130439, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver Alan Stuart Anderson (Service No:VX130439) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V245031) from 13 March 1942 to 26 february 1943 with 21 Reserve Motor Transport (MT) and 135 Australian General Transport (AGT) Coy. Private Anderson was in Darwin, NT on 27 February 1943 when he enlisted in the AIF. Driver Anderson was attached to 135 AGT, 31 Australian Coy AASC and 120 Australian General Transport (AGT) Coy in Darwin (9 February 1944 - 4 September 1945) and was Discharged on 17 December 1946.
Born in Beaufort, Victoria in 1924, Snow (Allan Stewart) was third of seven children of William James Anderson Snr (b1892 in Beaufort, Victoria) and Emily Lyons (b1893 in Waterloo via Beaufort, Victoria). William worked as an Attendant in a Hospital for the Insane and as a Labourer, and served in WWI (Service No:304). In 1920 he was a Farmer when he and Emily married in Beaufort, where they settled and raised their family before moving to Brewster. William was a Farmer, and served in the ACMF in WWII.
Snow was a Farm Hand/Labourer in Trawalla when he enlisted in WWII and following his Discharge, returned to Beaufort where, in 1946 he married Nancy Margaret Davis (b1926 in Beaufort, Victoria). Snow and Nancy lived in Beaufort where Snow was a Fruiterer before settling in Camperdown in the early 1950s - where they raised their family and Snow was a Farmer. Nancy died in 2009 and Snow in 2010.