NASH, Ronald Mckenzie
| Service Number: | VX44250 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Yea, Victoria, Australia, 25 July 1910 |
| Home Town: | Yea, Murrindindi, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Yea, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Rupture of Aorta, South Melbourne P.H.H.Victoria, Australia, 2 July 1985, aged 74 years |
| Cemetery: |
Frankston Memorial Park and Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Driver, VX44250, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 6 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX44250 | |
| 29 Jul 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Driver, VX44250, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 29 Jul 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX44250 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Driver, VX44250, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ron was the eldest of six children of Frederick George Nash (born 1882 in Murrundindi, Victoria) and Florence Myrtle McKenzie (born 1893 in Yea, Victoria). Frederick was a Labourer in 1910 when he married Florence. They settled at Yea and raised their family, and by 1940 Frederick was a Farmer.
Ron was a Labourer at Molesworth, Yea in Victoria when he enlisted in the Australian Army in August 1940. He served as a Driver (Service No:VX44250) with 4 Australian Reserve Motor Transport Coy and was a PoW of the Japanese in Malaya. Ron was Discharged on 29 July 1946. Brothers-in-Law Robert Eden White (Gunner; Service No:VX26807), James Edwin White (Private; Sevice No:VX30203), and Alexander George White (Gunner; Service No:VX26804/Aircraftman; Service No:429754), Sister-in-Law Ada Isabel Ellis (Aircraftwoman; Service No:F103722) and Brother George Oswald Nash (Private; Service No:V380580) also served in WWII.
Ron settled in Violet Town, Victoria when he returned from War, and was a Farmer in 1951 when he married Minnie White (born 1913 in Violet Town, Victoria). Ron was a Farmer in Violet Town until 1960 when he and Minnie relocated to Frankston, where Ron died in 1985. Minnie died in 1989