FLETCHER, Aubrey James
| Service Numbers: | VX88485, VX88485 (V59883) |
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| Enlisted: | 23 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 3 April 1918 |
| Home Town: | Castlemaine, Mount Alexander, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | Castlemaine, Mount Alexander - Victoria, Australia, 29 November 1949, aged 31 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Castlemaine General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, VX88485, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 6 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, VX88485, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant Colonel, VX88485 (V59883), 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Aubrey was the seventh of thirteen children of Percival William Fletcher (born 1877 in Tasmania) and Lillian Edwards (born 1885 in Maldon, Victoria). Percival and Lillian married in Maldon, Victoria - which is in the Victorian Goldfields, north west of Melbourne - in 1906. They moved to Daylesford, at the foot of the Great Dividing Range, in 1913 before settling in Castlemaine, Victoria in 1916. Percival was a Carter.
Aubrey was a Plumber in Castlemaine in 1941 when he married Joyce Holmes Farrar (born 1919 in Castlemaine, Victoria). Joyce worked in the Textile Mills. Aubrey enlisted in Geraldton, WA in July 1942 in the Army. He served with 2/32 Australian Infantry Battalion as a Lieutenant (Service Nos: VX88485/V59883) at El Alamein, and in New Guinea. He was Discharged in February 1946. Aubrey's brothers Percival Roy Fletcher (Service No: VX88512) and John (Jack) Colin Fletcher (Service No: VX87885) served in WWII, and Brothers-in-Law - Donald Henry Harris (RAAF; Service No:141884), Reginald Minihan (RAAF; Service No:119113), Frank Edward Joy (Service No: VX138940), and Harold Dean Parker (RAAF; 120822) also served in WWII.
Aubrey returned to Castlemaine following his Discharge, where he worked as a Labourer and Plumber until his death in 1949.
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