HAYNES, Albert Nile
| Service Number: | VX42101 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1940, Caulfield, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 42 Water Transport Group |
| Born: | Clifton Hill, Victoria, 27 June 1910 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Handyman |
| Died: | Natural causes, Newcastle, New South Wales, 1978 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX42101, Caulfield, Victoria | |
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| 27 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX42101 | |
| 21 Feb 1945: | Discharged Corporal, VX42101, 42 Water Transport Group | |
| 21 Mar 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX42101 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Raebel
Nile was born in 1910.
In 1930 his father decided the family would do better in the "Golden West" diving across the Nullarbour in a Reo Flying Cloud with spare petrol tins on the running boards tied by planks between the mudguards. He cursed every high pressure tyre he repaired on that trip. The Madura pass was still memorable to my Mother 30 years later when we crossed it.
Nile migrated in road convoy from Melbourne with my family to Qld in 1949. I first remember him in 1954 where he owned the yacht "Tuan" at West End in Brisbane. His lady was Joannie (son Billie), an Egyptian Greek he had sponsored to Australia.
I last met him at wedding #1 in 1971 with his wife from Toronto NSW. We went to see her in 1983 but she had Alzheimers.
A good man - He served in Greece, Egypt and Palestine.
He is listed by WW2 Nominal roll as 42 Water Transport Coy.
He was invalided out. He was on point duty in Palestine when a truck in the roundabout rolled and buried him in gravel crushing his feet. That was his story of why he was a TPI Pensioner.
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