RODDA, Benjamin Lock
| Service Number: | V205099 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 September 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Trafalgar, Victoria, 10 November 1921 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Junior Clerk |
| Died: | Mornington, Victoria, 2 December 2017, aged 96 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mornington Public Cemetery, Victoria https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213984598/benjamin-lock-rodda |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Sep 1941: | Enlisted V205099 | |
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| Date unknown: | Discharged V205099 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Benjamin Lock Rodda (Service No:V205099) served in the ACMF from 26 September 1941 - date of Discharge is 'not yet specified' (DVA). His father Benjamin served in WWI and sibling Orlando in WWII.
Ben was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1921, eldest of three children of Benjamin Angwin Rodda (b1889 in Daylesford, Victoria) and Margaret Lock (b1887 in Melbourne, Victoria). Benjamin was a Farmer in Thorpdale and Margaret a Dairy Farmer's daughter in Thorpdale, where they married in 1916. Following his Discharge from the Army, Benjamin and Margaret lived in Thorpdale, Trafalgar and Sale where they raised their family and Benjamin was a Farmer. In the late 1930s they moved to Melbourne, where Benjamin was a Boilermaker.
Ben worked as a Junior Clerk in Melbourne, where in 1945 he married Beryl Mavis Lovelace (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ben and Beryl settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Ben worked as a Clerk. Following retirement, Ben and Beryl moved to Mornington, where Ben died in 2017.
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