Victor Thomas OGILVIE

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OGILVIE, Victor Thomas

Service Number:	151614
Enlisted:	21 July 1943
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	RAAF Laverton
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 2 February 1926
Home Town:	Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling:	Thornburgh College Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Junior Clerk
Died:	Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 6 March 2011, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maffra Public Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

21 Jul 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Air Cadet, 151614, 3 Wing Air Training Corps (RAAF)
9 Mar 1944:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 151614
12 May 1948:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 151614, RAAF Laverton

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Victor was the son of Victor Ogilvie Snr (b1893 in Bundaberg QLD) and Ethel Mary McWilliam (b1892 in Taree, NSW). Victor (a Labourer) and Erhel married in Bundaberg, QLD in 1922. They lived in Maroondan, Longreach, Bundaberg and Maryborough in QLD where Victor Snr worked as a Labourer.

In 1944 Victor was a Clerk in Bundaberg, QLD when he enlisted in the RAAF. He was a Leading Aircraftman (Service No:51614) attached to Laverton Transport and Departure Centre when he was Discharged in May 1948. That year he married Edna Daisy Lorraine Coombes (b1927 in Maffra, Victoria) in Maffra where he settled and worked as a Clerk. Victor died in 2011.

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