Wilfrid Alexander NOBLE MID

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NOBLE, Wilfrid Alexander

Service Number:	VX14780
Enlisted:	10 May 1940, Caulfield, VIC
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 31 March 1917
Home Town:	St Kilda East, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Brighton Public School, Scotch College, South Australia
Occupation:	Employed by A Noble & Son
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 11 September 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, VX14780
10 May 1940:	Enlisted Caulfield, VIC
10 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, VX14780, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
10 May 1940:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, VX14780, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
10 May 1940:	Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, VX14780
10 May 1940:	Enlisted
23 Dec 1943:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, VX14780, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by VWM Australia

WO2 W A Noble of Lock Street St Kilda Victoria, aged 25. Son of Mrs and the late Mr G A Noble of 39 Marlborough Street Brighton, SA. Educated at Brighton Public School and Scotch College, Mitcham. Keen on all sport, especially cricket and lacrosse. In civil life a member of the firm A Noble & Son Ltd. and was employed in the Melbourne branch. Enlisted in 2nd AIF in May 1940. Was wounded in action during the Syrian campaign came home on leave in March 1942 and was sent to New Guinea where he was killed in action on September 11 1942.

Information supplied from The Personal Pictorial Honor Roll of South Australians who have enlisted in the Second World War.

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