FORD, Ronald Townsend
| Service Numbers: | Q123407, QX40487 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Mechanical Equipment Workshop |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 1922 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Driver |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1 May 2011, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Dec 1941: | Involvement Craftsman, QX40487, also Q123407 - died 1 May 2011 (C'Mail) | |
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| 30 Dec 1941: | Involvement Craftsman, Q123407, also QX40487 - died 1 May 2011 (C'Mail) | |
| 30 Dec 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 30 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX40487 | |
| 11 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, QX40487 | |
| 21 Oct 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, QX40487, 2nd Mechanical Equipment Workshop, embarked Cairns for Buna on board Duntroon | |
| 28 Jul 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, QX40487, 2nd Mechanical Equipment Workshop, embarked Lae for Newcastle on board Ormiston | |
| 13 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, QX40487, 2nd Mechanical Equipment Workshop, embarked Brisbane for Morotai on board Sea Ray | |
| 9 Oct 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, QX40487, 2nd Mechanical Equipment Workshop, embarked Labuan for Brisbane on board Manoora | |
| 22 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX40487 | |
| 22 Oct 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Craftsman Ronald Townsend Ford (Service Nos:Q123407/QX40487) initially served in the ACMF as a Private (classified Driver Mechanic) with 1 and 103 Independent Brigade Workshops from 30 December 1941 to 10 September 1942. He enlisted in the AIF on 11 September 1942 and was a Craftsman attached to 2 Australian Mechanical (AME) Workshops when he served in New Guinea (17 October 1943 - 6 August 1944) and Borneo (13 March 1945 - 9 October 1945). Craftsman Ford was attached to 2 Australian Mechanical Equipment (AME) Workshop at Discharge on 22 October 1945. Brother Allan also served in WWII.
Ron was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1922, youngest of four children of Henry Ford (b1874 in Wodonga, Victoria) and Annie May Carlton (b1882 at Mt Egerton, Victoria). Henry worked in Melbourne as a Labourer and in 1911 was an Assistant Stationmaster when he and Annie married. Henry and Annie settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Henry worked as an Assistant Stationmaster and Stationmaster. In the mid 1930s the family moved to Brisbane, QLD, where Annie died in 1944 and Henry in 1950.
Ron was a Motor Mechanic and Motor Driver in Brisbane when he enlisted in the Army. In 1944 in Brisbane he married Dorothy Lois Stonebridge (b1924 in Brisbane, QLD) and, following his Discharge, he and Lois settled in Chermside where they raised their family and Ron was a Garage Proprietor and member of the Kedron-Wavell RSL. Ron and Lois moved to Everton Park in the late 1970s (Ron worked as a Salesman and Manager). Ron died in 2011.
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