SPOKES, Archibald Robert
| Service Number: | WX9634 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mingenew, Western Australia, 2 May 1919 |
| Home Town: | Mingenew, Mingenew, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Frankland, Western Australia, 28 August 1987, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Barker Cemetery, Mount Barker, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Mingenew District Road Board WW2 Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9634, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Feb 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9634, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Archie was the second child of Archibald Winchester Spokes (b1877 in Colac, Geelong, Victoria) and Elizabeth Julia Ann Fickling (nee Rose; b1879 in Moree, NSW). Archibald had been a Blacksmith in Victoria before moving to Mingenew WA where in 1910 he was a Labourer on Nangetty Station. Following the death of her first husband in a shooting accident at Nangetty Station in 1910, Archibald married Elizabeth in 1917. They settled in Mingenew where Archibald worked as a Farm Hand and Labourer.
Archie was a Labourer in Mingenew WA when he enlisted in the Army in December 1940. He was serving as a Private (Service No:WX9634) attached to 2/28 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in February 1944.
In 1946 Archie was a Labourer in Mingenew WA when he married Mabel Alice May Sharp (nee Herbert; b1907 in Albany, WA). The couple settled in Mingenew WA where Archie worked as a Labourer before relocating to Frankland, WA in the mid 1970s - Archie worked as a Machine Operator. Archie died in 1987 and Mabel in 1990.
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