ROGERS, Ronald
| Service Numbers: | Q9745, QX23568 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Light / later 'Composite' Anti Aircraft Regiment |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 15 October 1916 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Factory Employee |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 5 January 1999, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Queensland Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Mar 1941: | Involvement Sergeant, Q9745, also QX23568 | |
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| 20 Mar 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 3 Sep 1941: | Involvement QX23568, also Q9745 | |
| 3 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, QX23568 | |
| 1 Nov 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, QX23568, embarked Sydney for Middle East | |
| 14 May 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombadier, 101 Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment | |
| 2 Dec 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombadier, QX23568, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby per Katoomba | |
| 27 Feb 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, QX23568, 2nd/4th Light / later 'Composite' Anti Aircraft Regiment, embarked Finschafen for Brisbane | |
| 25 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, QX23568 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ron was living in Brisbane, QLD in 1941 when he enlisted in the Australian Army, where he served as a Gunner and Sergeant (Service No: QX23568) with 2/4 Anti Aircraft Regiment 7th Battalion.
His younger brother Stanley Thomas was killed in 1933 on the Indooroopilly Golf Links in Brisbane - Ron and Stanley were registered Golf Caddies at the lLinks and were caddying there on 21 May 1933 when Stan was struck in the head by a golf ball and killed. The golfer who hit the ball, subsequently financed Ron's studies.
Ron married Dorothy (Peg) Cansdale in Brisbane, QLD in 1947, and then worked as an Accountant in Gympie, QLD until 1958 when the family returned to live in Fairfield, Brisbane, QLD where Ron continued as an Accountant and became a Justice of the Peace in the 1970s
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