ROBERTS, Ernest Sydney
| Service Number: | S66288 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Long Plains, Mallala, South Australia, 31 May 1902 |
| Home Town: | Willunga, Onkaparinga, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fisherman and Agent |
| Died: | Gawler, South Australia, 27 June 1976, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Willunga Uniting Church Cemetery, S.A. |
| Memorials: | Dublin War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, S66288 | |
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| 5 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 5 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S66288 | |
| 9 Aug 1944: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ernest Sydney Roberts (Service No:S66288) served in the ACMF with 4th Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) from 5 April 1942 to 9 August 1944. Siblings Clarence, Charles, Allan and Howard also served in WWII.
Ernie was born in 1902 at Long Plains, Mallala in South Australia, eldest of ten children of Sydney Dean Roberts (b1878 in Dublin, South Australia) and Ellen Frances Emily Rose (b1881 at Reedbeds, South Australia). Sydney (a Labourer) and Ellen married in 1901 in Windsor, South Australia and lived in Adelaide, Balaclava nr the Wakefield River, Mallala and Medindie where they raised their family and Sydney worked as a Labourer.
Ernie (who was blind in his left eye) worked as a Fisherman and Agent, and in 1927 at Montacute in the Adelaide Hills married Gertrude May Thomas (b1905 in Montacute, South Australia). Ernie and Gertrude settled at Willunga, Onkaparinga where Ernie was a Fisherman, Agent and Motor Driver. Gertrude died in 1963 and Ernie in 1976.
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