Albert James ELDER

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ELDER, Albert James

Service Number:	SX17816
Enlisted:	4 March 1942, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Hilton, Adelaide, South Australia, 7 August 1917
Home Town:	Kensington, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Head Injuries, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, 12 January 1954, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	Hamilton Lawn Cemetery, Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

4 Mar 1942:	Involvement Private, SX17816
4 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
4 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX17816
30 Nov 1944:	Discharged
30 Nov 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX17816

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Albert James Elder (Service No:SX17816) enlisted in the AIF in Adelaide on 4 March 1942 - graded Carpenter. Sapper Elder served with 6th Army Troops Coy, Bomb Disposal Squad in the Northern Territory in 1942, and was attached to the Bomb Disposal Squad at Discharge on 30 November 1944.

Albert was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1917, second of six children of Albert George Elder (b1892 in Adelaide, South Ausralia) and Edith Elizabeth Hodges (b1892 in Adelaide, South Australia). Albert Snr and Edith married in 1914 in Adelaide, where they settled and raised their family and Albert Snr was a Carpenter.

Albert was a Labourer in Keswick in 1937 when he married his first wife Dulcie Elizabeth Rita Fahy (b1918 in Adelaide, South Australia). Albert and Dulcie lived in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Albert was working as a Carpenter when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Albert worked in Adelaide as a Carpenter, and he and Dulcie divorced in 1950. That same year, Albert made an application to enlist in the Army Reserves, before moving to Hamilton, Wannon in Victoria, where he worked as a Carpenter. In 1953 in Hamilton, Albert married his second wife Rosalie (aka Mavis) Kenny (b1934 in Hamilton, Victoria). In 1954 Albert suffered severe head injuries when his vehicle collided with a train at a railway crossing - thrown from his vehicle, he died as a result of his injuries. Mavis later remarried.

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