CROLE, Reginald Vaughan
| Service Number: | VX62632 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 August 1941, 11 Australian Small Ships Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, 14 December 1913 |
| Home Town: | Boronia, Knox, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Accidental, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 April 1946, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 28 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, VX62632, 11 Australian Small Ships Company | |
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| 28 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX62632 | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, VX62632, 11 Australian Small Ships Company | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX62632 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Reginald was the eldest of four children of Walter Henry Crole (born 1890 in Warragul, Victoria) and Florence Helena Mears (born 1890 in Pakenham, Victoria). Walter, a Labourer and Florence married in 1913 in Leongatha, Victoria and later moved to Newhaven, in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria where Walter was a Fisherman and Boat Builder.
Reginald married Iris Kathleen Usher (born 1917 in Yorkshire, England) in Port Phillip Bay in 1937. He enlisted in the Army in August 1941, serving as a Sapper (Service No: VX62632) with 11 Australian Small Ships Coy. He was Discharged in December 1944 and died in an accident in 1946.
Younger brother Mervyn served with the Volunteer Reserves RAN (Service No: PM/V498) in WWII; cousins - Floyd (Service No: VX40718) 102 Convalescent Depot; and John Sidney (Service No: PM6240) RAN - served in WWII. Uncles - Sydney Roland (Service No:10332) and Ernest George (Service No: 54867) served in WWI).
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