WARD, Spencer Roy
| Service Number: | SX345 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 October 1939, Keswick, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 2 December 1915 |
| Home Town: | Kilkenny, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | farm Hand |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 20 April 2000, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia The South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Oct 1939: | Involvement Private, SX345, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Keswick, SA | |
| 5 May 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX345, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, embarked Sydney for Gourock, Scotland | |
| 11 Dec 1943: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Spencer Ray Ward (Service No:SX345) served in the AIF with 2/10 Battalion from 20 October 1939 - graded Signaller. Private Ward served in Scotland (1940), the Middle East (1941) and New Guinea (1942) and was attached to 2/10 Battalion at Discharge on 11 December 1943. Father Spencer Snr served in WWI and brother Ross in WWII.
Spencer Jnr was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1915, eldest of four children of Spencer Roy Ward (b1891 in Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia) and Susan Elizabeth Weekley (b1889 at Langhorne Creek, South Australia). Spencer Snr (a Miner) and Susan married in 1915 in Adelaide, and Spencer Snr served in the AIF (Trooper; Service No:750). Following his Discharge in 1919, Spencer Snr and Susan lived in Edithburgh and Adelaide, where they raised their family and Spencer Snr was a Carpenter/Joiner.
Spencer Jnr worked in Lameroo as a Farm Hand and was a Labourer in Kilkenny when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Spencer worked as a Labourer at Port Adelaide, and in 1945 married Betty Marion Norton-Baker (b1917 in Unley, South Australia) - Betty was working in Unley as a Telephonist. Spencer and Betty lived at Port Adelaide, where Spencer was a Labourer. Spencer died in 2000 and Betty in 2016.
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