MELDRUM, Robert Dean
Service Numbers: | SX38254, S42123 |
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Enlisted: | 26 April 1945 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies |
Born: | Pinnaroo, South Australia, 27 December 1923 |
Home Town: | Brighton, Holdfast Bay, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Driver |
Died: | Brighton, South Australia, 16 October 1986, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
North Brighton Cemetery, S.A. |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
26 Apr 1945: | Enlisted Private, SX38254, Camp Pell, Victoria | |
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26 Apr 1945: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX38254, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies | |
27 Apr 1945: | Involvement Private, SX38254 | |
27 Apr 1945: | Involvement S42123 | |
14 Feb 1946: | Discharged Private, SX38254, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies | |
14 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX38254, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies |
Robert Dean Meldrum
My name is Jillian Kay Lawson (nee Meldrum). My father died in his early sixties in 1986.
He was a battler who worked at John Martins from the age of 15 until the age of 58. However he was always happy and the church overflowed at his funeral which showed what people thought of him.
He had musical talent and played the bugle in the Army. I am not sure what happened to that bugle, but he also played the mouth organ, and my grand-son Dylan has that now.
Submitted 10 July 2017 by Jillian Lawson