Aubrey Aurelius STOBIE

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STOBIE, Aubrey Aurelius

Service Number:	VX28824
Enlisted:	24 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd later 2nd/2nd Heavy (later Composite) Anti Aircraft Regiment
Born:	Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1914
Home Town:	Black Rock, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Elwood, Victoria, Victoria, Australia, 8 March 1985, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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World War 2 Service

24 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX28824
24 Jan 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX28824, 2nd later 2nd/2nd Heavy (later Composite) Anti Aircraft Regiment, Medically Unfit

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Aubrey Aurelius Stobie (Service No:VX28824) served in the AIF (Gunner, Bombardier) with 2/2 Anti Aircraft Regiment from 24 June 1940 to 24 January 1941 (Medically Unfit). Brothers Eric and Raymond served in the RAAF in WWII.

Aubrey was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1914, third of five children of Albert Aurelius Stobie (b1888 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Victoria (Lily) Lillian Laughton (b1887 in Melbourne, Victoria). Albert and Lily married in 1908 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Albert was a Clerk and Bookkeeper - and he performed in radio and theatre as a Comedian under the stage name Fred Champion.

Aubrey worked as a Salesman in Melbourne where, in 1944 he married Patricia Evelyn McDermott (b1924 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Patricia worked as a Clerk in Melbourne. Frpm the mid 1940s Aubrey and Patricia lived in Sydney, where Aubrey was an Accountant, until the early 1950s when they returned to Melbourne and divorced - Patricia remarried in 1955. Aubrey settled in Melbourne, where he worked as a Clerk and Accountant until retirement. Aubrey died in 1985.

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