JOB, Spencer Roy
| Service Number: | VX129351 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Yunta, South Australia, 24 April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Company Director |
| Died: | Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 51 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jan 1941: | Involvement VX129351 | |
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| 24 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Royal Park, VIC | |
| 24 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX129351 | |
| 28 Apr 1941: | Imprisoned PoW No: 55 Reported Missing at Toma on 20 April 1942 | |
| 4 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX129351, 8 Military District Australian Defence Canteen Services |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Spencer Roy Job (Service No:VX129351) enlisted in the AIF on 4 August 1941, having served with the ACMF (Sergeant; Service No:V10592) since 24 January 1941. Staff Sergeant Job was attached to 8 Militray District Canteen Services when he was Reported Missing at Toma on 20 April 1942. He was confirmed PoW (No:55) a week later. On 1 July 1942 Staff Sergeant Job was one of more than 1,000 PoWs of the Japanese (most of them Australian) on board the Montevideo Maru being transferred to Hainan (off Southern China). The ship was torpedoed by USS Sturgeon off Luzon with the loss of all internees and prisoners on board. Spencer's brothers Jack Hiram and William Harold served in WWI and daughters Kathleen and Dorothy served in WWII.
Born in 1889 at Yunta in South Australia, Spencer was the second of seven children of William Job (b1862 in Devon, England) and Elizabeth Gidley (b1860 in Brighton, South Australia). William had emigrated with his mother and siblings in 1882, arriving in Adelaide on board the Clyde. William (a Hotelkeeper) and Elizabeth married in 1896 in Port Adelaide, South Australia and lived in Port Augusta, Yunta, Crystal Brook and Rose Park in South Australia.
Spencer was a Hotelkeeper/Licensee at the Barrier Hotel in Port Pirie SA in 1914 when he married Madeline Ruby Green (b1883 in Melbourne, Victoria). Spencer and Madeline lived in Port Pirie (Barrier Hotel), Walleroo (Cornucopia Hotel) and Adelaide (Supreme Court Hotel) where Spencer was a Hotel Licensee. They were living in Melbourne, Victoria when Spencer enlisted in 1941 - he was a Company Director and Madeline a Manageress. Madeline died in 1969.