William Tobin (Bill) PEARCE

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PEARCE, William Tobin

Service Number:	NX56410
Enlisted:	4 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1 Field Bakery 2nd/AIF
Born:	Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, 20 August 1904
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bus Conductor
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 17 July 1965, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Field Of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, NSW
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World War 2 Service

4 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX56410
9 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX56410, embarked Sydney for Middle East
24 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX56410, 1 Field Bakery 2nd/AIF
12 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX56410

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private William Tobin Pearce (Service No:NX56410) enlisted in the AIF on 6 July 1940 with 6th Infantry Battalion. Private Pearce served in the Middle East (9 April 1941 - 24 March 1942) with 1st Field Bakery before transferring to 2nd, 3rd and 8th Field Bakery Coys. Private Pearce was attached to 3rd Field Bakery at Discharge on 12 Octobaer 1945.

Bill, born in 1904 in Penrith NSW, was the eldest of six children of William Henry Pearce (b1869 in Northern Ireland) and Venus Wilhelmina Plummer (b1879 in Sydney, NSW). William (an Inspector of Government Railways) and Venus married in 1903 in Penrith, NSW where they settled and raised their family. William immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1878, arriving in Sydney NSW on board the Erato. William worked in Penrtih and Sydney for the NSW Government Railways as an Inspector and Superintendent.

Bill worked as a Clerk in Sydney NSW where, in 1931 he married Ida Kathleen Lynch (b1909 in Narromine, NSW). Bill and Ida settled in Sydney where Bill worked as a Clerk and Bus Conductor and following his Discharge in 1945, he and Ida coninued living in Sydney where Bill worked as a Bus Conductor until his death in 1965. Ida died in 1977.

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