Ross Frederick ELDER

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ELDER, Ross Frederick

Service Number:	153207
Enlisted:	27 June 1944
Last Rank:	Not yet discovered
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Torrensville, South Australia, 9 November 1923
Home Town:	Hilton, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Jockey
Died:	Semaphore, South Australia, 13 August 1990, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

27 Jun 1944:	Involvement 153207
27 Jun 1944:	Enlisted Adelaide
27 Jun 1944:	Enlisted 153207
23 May 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Aircraftman I Ross Frederick Elder (Service No:153207) enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 27 June 1944 - mustered as General Hand. ACI Elder served with No 14 Stores Unit, and was attached to 3 School of Technical Training (STT) Ultimo at Discharge on 23 May 1945. Brother Albert also served in WWII.

Ross was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1923, fifth of six children of Albert George Elder (b1892 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Edith Adelaide Hodges (b1892 in Adelaide, South Australia). Albert (a Carpenter) and Edith married in 1914 in Adelaide, where they settled and raised their family and Albert was a Carpenter.

Ross would frequent the stables of Trainer Mick McCoy after school and, although Apprenticed as a Carpenter on finishing school, Ross lasted six months before becoming an Apprentice Jockey in 1939. He also worked as a Storeman and Packer for J Condon and Sons before enlisting in the RAAF in 1944. Following his Discharge, Ross resumed work as a Jockey, with considerable success as a Steeple Chase and Cross Country Jockey. In 1945 in Semaphore, Ross married Dulcie Lorraine Andrews (b1925 in Kent Town, South Australia). Ross pursued a racing career in Melbourne until the late 1940s, when he became a registered Horse Trainer in Parkside, South Australia - racing horses in Adelaide and inter state. Dulcie died in 1986 and Ross in 1990.

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