PROBERT, George
| Service Number: | V91066 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 December 1940, 3 Australian Movement Control Group |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 1 |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Govern Hill, Glasgow, Scotland, 18 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Heidelberg, Banyule, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| Died: | Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 29 August 1961, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, V91066, 3 Australian Movement Control Group | |
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| 20 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, V91066, 3 Australian Movement Control Group | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, V91066 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
George was the youngest of three children of Edward Probert (born 1860 in Durham, England) and Mary Jane Young (born 1864 in Durham, England). Joseph worked as a Commission Agent and Grocer's Assistant and married Mary Jane in 1880 in Northumberland, England.
George was sixteen years of age when he started work as an Underground Colliery Labourer in 1911, before immigrating to Victoria. He was a School Teacher at Jumbuck, Morwell, Gippsland, Victoria in 1924 when he married Ruby Moysey (born 1891 in Berwick, West Gippsland, Victoria). George and Ruby lived at Jumbuck, where George was a School Teacher until the mid 1930s when they moved to Heidelberg, Victoria.
George enlisted in the ACMF in December 1940 and was a Warrant Officer I attached to 3 Australian Movement Control Group when he was Discharged in March 1946.
George and Ruby remained in Heidelberg, Victoria and George continued working as a School Teacher. He died in 1960 and Ruby in 1983.