Reuben Warren TOWIE

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TOWIE, Reuben Warren

Service Number:	W85659
Enlisted:	29 April 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Manjimup, Western Australia, 14 March 1908
Home Town:	Jardee, Manjimup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sawmill Hand
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 15 March 1978, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

29 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W85659, 14th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
15 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W85659, 14th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W85659, 14th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Reuben Warren Towie (Service No:W85659) served in the ACMF (14th Battalion (WA) VDC) from 29 April 1942 to 15 October 1945.

Tenth of eleven children (and first born in WA), Reuben was born in 1908 in Manjimup WA to John Henry Towie (b1862 in Staffordshire, England) and Elizabeth Roden (b1870 in Lancashire, England). John (a Smelterer) and Elizabeth (a Spinner) married in 1881 in Lancashire and immigrated in 1906, arriving Fremantle WA with nine children on board the Orontes. John and Elizabeth settled in Balbarrup and in the 1920s in Jardanup where they raised their family and John was a Farmer.

Reuben statred work as a Casual Railways Workers with WAGR and in 1931 was a Sawmill Hand in Jardee when he married Jessica (Jessie) Isabel Cooper (b1911 in Perth, WA). Reuben and Jessie settled in Jardee nr Manjimup where Reuben was a Sawmill Hand/Benchman before moving to Perth in the early 1950s. Reuben worked as a Mill Hand, Granoworker (concrete worker) and Labourer in Perth, where he died in 1978. Jessie died in 1997.

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