CROXFORD, Reuben William
| Service Number: | V75475 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Violet Town, Victoria, Australia, 27 October 1916 |
| Home Town: | Violet Town, Strathbogie, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Violet Town, Victoria, Australia, 30 September 2003, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Violet Town Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V75475, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 27 Jan 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V75475, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Reuben William Croxford (Service No:V75475) enlisted in the ACMF on 18 March 1941 and served with 6 Supply Coy. Private Croxford was attached to 120 Reserve Motor Transport Coy when he was Discharged on 27 January 1943.
Born in 1916 at Violet Town in Victoria, Reuben was the youngest of two children of Archibald (Archy) Reuben Croxford (b1880 at Violet Town, Victoria) and Beatrice Maud Jones (b1888 at Caniambo, Victoria) Archy (a Labourer) and Beatrice married in 1914 at Shadforth, Violet Town, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Archy worked as a Labourer and Miner.
Reuben worked as a Farm Labourer at Two Mile Creek via Violet Town in Victoria, and in 1935 married Doris Jean Wall (b1922 in Violet Town, Victoria). Reuben and Doris settled at Two Mile Creek where they raised their family and Reuben worked as a Farm Labourer and by the 1960's was a Farmer. Doris died in 2002 and Reuben in 2003.
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