ANSCOMBE, Darren William
| Service Number: | VX132879 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 November 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Bulk Issue Petrol and Oil Depots |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 January 1923 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Miami, Queensland, Australia, 23 June 1995, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 29 Nov 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX132879 | |
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| 23 Jul 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX132879 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Corporal, VX132879, Bulk Issue Petrol and Oil Depots |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Darren was the only son of William Samuel Frank Anscombe (born 1897 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Edith Martha Stringer (born 1899 in Scoresby, Victoria). William - a Carpenter in Melbourne - married Edith in 1921 and they settled in Melbourne to raise their family. By the early 1930s William was a Dairy Manager, and in 1942 he enlisted in the Army (Corporal; Service No:52387). After the War he was a Trade Inspector.
Darren was a Salesman in the Northern Territory when he enlisted in the Army (Service No:VX132879). He was attached to 1 Australian Bulk Petrol Storage Coy when he was Discharged in July 1946.
In 1949 Darren was a Salesman in Melbourne, Victoria when he married Dawn (Valerie) Machin (born in Melbourne, Victoria). Darren and Valerie moved to Swan Hill, Mallee in 1950 and Darren worked as a Saleman and Garage Proprietor. In the mid 1960s the family moved to Hightown in Corangamite, Victoria where Darren was a Newsagent. He retired to Miami on the Gold Coast in QLD, where he died in 1995.