RODDA, Benjamin Angwin
| Service Number: | 1292 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, 11 January 1889 |
| Home Town: | Thorpdale, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Yea, Victoria, Australia, 30 March 1977, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1292, 38th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1292, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1292, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 5 Sep 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1292, 59th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Plassy | |
| 17 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1292, 59th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Benjamin Angwin Rodda (Service No:1292) served in the Militia (13th Light Horse (Vic) Regiment) for three years prior to enlisting in the AIF on 10 March 1916. Private Rodda was attached to 38th Infantry Battalion on 20 June 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for England on board HMAT A54 Runic. Private Rodda served on the Western Front, and in August 1916 was admitted to Fargo Military Hospital with Influenza. Transferring to 59th Infantry Battalion on 8 October 1916, Private Rodda served with the 59th at Polygon Wood, Bullencourt, Villers-Bretonneux and Amiens. Private Rodda embarked from England for Melbourne on 5 September 1919 on board HT Plassy and was attached to 59th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 17 December 1919. Sons Ben and Orlando served in WWII.
Benjamin was born in Daylesford, Victoria in 1889, sixth of fourteen children oh John Rodda (b1860 in Creswick, Victoria) and Annie James Botheras (b1860 in Bendigo, Victoria). James (a Farmer) and Annie maaried in 1880 in Daylesford, where they settled and raised their family and John was a Farmer. The family later lived at Musk Creek via Daylesford and Thorpdale where John was a Farmer and Labourer.
Benjamin worked as a Farmer in Thorpdale where, in 1916 he married Margaret Lock (b1887 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Margaret was living on her parent's Dairy Farm in Thorpdale. Following his Discharge, Benjamin and Margaret lived in Thorpdale before settling in Sale in the early 1930s, where Benjamin was a Farmer. In the 1940s the family moved to Melbourne, where Benjamin worked as a Boilermaker. Benjamin died in 1977 and Margaret in 1979.
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