Jack Wilfred RICE

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RICE, Jack Wilfred

Service Number:	SX16391
Enlisted:	15 January 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Prospect, South Australia, 13 November 1916
Home Town:	Nairne, Mount Barker, South Australia
Schooling:	Nairne Primary School, South Australia
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Nairne, South Australia, 15 August 1997, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Nairne Cemetery, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

15 Jan 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, SX16391
15 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
15 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX16391
7 Aug 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX16391, embarked Townsville for Milne Bay on board Westralia
8 Aug 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX16391, embarked Finschafen for Brisbane on board the William Luckenbach
20 May 1946:	Discharged
20 May 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX16391

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Elder of the two brothers (Jack and William) who served in WWII, Sergeant Jack Wilfred Rice (Service No:SX16391) enlisted in the AIF on 15 January 1942 as a Private with 3 Training Battalion - graded Storeman. Promoted to Corporal, he marched in to 7 Ammunition Coy, and on 7 August 1943 was Sergeant attached to 19 Australian Ordnance Ammunition Coy when he embarked with his Unit from Townsville for Milne Bay on board the Westralia. On 8 August 1944, Sergeant Rice embarked from Finschafen for Brisbane on board the William Luckenbach, and in 1945 was attached to 101 Australian Ordnance Vehicle Park and to 2 Advanced Ammunition Depot (AAAD). Sergeant Rice was attached to 7 Ordnance Ammunition Coy at Discharge on 20 May 1946.

Jack was born in Prospect, South Australia in 1916, eldest of six children of Joshua (Josh) Thomas Rice (b1870 at Levi's Waterhole in Duttion via Nuriootpa, South Australia) and Edith (Edie) May Rowe (b1897 at Gepps Cross, Port Adelaide, South Australia). Josh and Edie married in 1916 in Adelaide, and moved to Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, where they lived until the early 1920s and Josh worked as a Labourer. Josh and Edie then settled in Nairne, where they raised their family and Josh worked as a Labourer.

Jack worked in Nairne as a Farm Labourer, and in 1938 in Adelaide married Alice Joyce Heuchan (b1918 at Port Pirie, South Australia). Jack and Alice were in Nairne in 1942 when Jack enlisted in the Army, and in the 1950s the couple divorced - both remarried. In 1962 in Mt Barker, Jack remarried to Helen Hauesler (b1942 in Mt Barker, South Australia), and settled in Nairne. Helen died in 1985 and Jack died in 1997.

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