Keith William OLVER

OLVER, Keith William

Service Number: 313742
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)
Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 1912
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Soldier
Died: Brain Tumour, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1985
Cemetery: Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria
Reg# 6444
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15 Feb 1971: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, 313742, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)

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Biography contributed by Rebecca Knol

Keith William Olver is the 2nd child of William John Olver and Elsie May Ashmore.

Keith's older sister Gwendoline Mary Hayler (nee Olver) Number: 350032 was a Flying Officer with the RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units.

William Keith (Keith) married Merna Irine Carlyle in 1939, they had one daughter Darylyn Jane Speldewinde (nee Olver).  

Keith was a member of the stock exchange and spent his working life with J.B. Were as a senior executive.

Keith died from a brain tumour in 1985 at 73 years of age, a year after his daughter’s death.  His daughter also had a brain tumour but died of asthma.

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