Rupert Theo Vance (Mick) MOON VC

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MOON, Rupert Theo Vance

Service Numbers:	153, V352179
Enlisted:	21 August 1914, Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Born:	Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 14 August 1892
Home Town:	Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Kyneton Grammar School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Bank clerk
Died:	Natural causes, Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia, 28 February 1986, aged 93 years
Cemetery:	Mount Duneed Public Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Keith Payne VC Memorial Park, Mount Duneed Lieutenant Rupert Vance Moon VC Memorial Garden, North Bondi War Memorial, Winchelsea WWI Memorial

World War 1 Service

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 153, Broadmeadows, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Bugler, 153, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Bugler, 153, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
24 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 153, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
6 Mar 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4th Light Horse Regiment
9 Sep 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 58th Infantry Battalion
6 Apr 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 58th Infantry Battalion
12 May 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 58th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second)
5 Feb 1919:	Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 58th Infantry Battalion
4 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 58th Infantry Battalion

World War 2 Service

5 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Captain, V352179, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Geelong, Victoria
5 Mar 1942:	Enlisted V352179
1 Nov 1945:	Discharged Captain, V352179, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Australian Dictionary of Biography - by J. R. Salmon

Rupert Theo Vance Moon (1892-1986), soldier and businessman, was born on 14 August 1892 at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, fourth child of English-born parents Arthur Moon, accountant and later bank inspector, and his wife Helen, née Dunning. Rupert was educated to junior public certificate level at Kyneton Grammar School before becoming a bank clerk at 16 with the National Bank of Australasia Ltd.

On 21 August 1914 Moon, having served in the Militia, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a trumpeter. He embarked on 19 October at Melbourne with the 4th Light Horse Regiment, which sailed to Egypt with the lst Division and was employed as infantry on Gallipoli from 24 May 1915 until evacuated to Egypt in December. Promoted to sergeant on 6 March 1916, he left for France where, on 9 September, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and appointed a platoon commander in the 58th Battalion.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moon-rupert-theo-vance-mick-14988 (adb.anu.edu.au)

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