STUBBS, Samuel Basil Alexander
| Service Numbers: | 421519, NX200338 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 5 February 1917 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Thuddungra Public School, Thuddungra NSW |
| Occupation: | Painter/Taxi Driver/Sugar Cane Famer |
| Died: | Heart Attack, Babinda, Queensland, Australia, 20 December 1977, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: |
Babinda Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Queanbeyan & District Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 421519 | |
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| 4 Jan 1943: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 421519 | |
| 26 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX200338, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Paddington, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Veronica Wark
Mick was the 2nd of 8 children of Valley Joseph David Clyde Stubbs and Alice Olive (nee Mellor). He spent most of his childhood on South Greenbank Station, Thuddungra NSW where his father worked. Once he left Thuddungra Public School he learned the painting trade in Young NSW and then moved to Queanbeyan and worked around the Canberra district. In 1942 he enlisted in the RAAF and was sent to Canada for training with the Empire Air Training Scheme. Medical issues caused him to be returned to Australia and was discharged. He later joined the AIF and was sent as a reinforcement for the 2/2 Infantry Battalion in New Guinea. In March 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal , the citation for which is recorded in the 'Purple Over Green" History of the 2/2nd Infantry Battalion, 1939. Page 401.
After the war Mick married Rita McCarty in Brisbane Qld and they had five children. Mick was issued with one of the two taxi licences issued in Canberra. He ran the taxi and a parnership in a milk run for the next five years. In 1952 Mick sold the taxi and milk run and bought a sugar cane farm at Babinda Qld. This was a hard life with low sugar cane prices and cyclones destroying crops. In 1963 the Government took part of Mick's land for a high school and in return gave him a large tract of undeveloped land in the Miriwinni Swamp area. Mick with the aid of his 3 sons developed this into a thriving cane farm which was successfully operated by his two eldest sons after his death. In his later years, Mick bought a grazing property on the Atherton Tablelands, Qld and started breeding Droughtmaster cattle, until his death in 1977. (Information extracted from the Stubbs Family History Publication/Stubbs Family Reunion Committee)