WARREN, William
| Service Number: | V52914 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Employment Company |
| Born: | Creswick via Ballarat, Victoria, Australa, 20 June 1920 |
| Home Town: | Dean, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Dean State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Wendouree, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 23 July 2010, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Creswick Public Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, V52914, Australian Employment Company |
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Private William Warren (Service No:V52914) served in the ACMF from 28 March 1941 to 4 May 1944 with 8th Infantry Battalion and 28 Employment Coy. Private Warren was posted in Darwin NT from 14 February 1942 to 30 October 1943, and was attached to 28 Employment Coy at Discharge on 4 May 1944.
Bill was born in Creswick via Ballarat, Victoria in 1920, eldest of four children of Ernest Bell Warren (b1876 in Mitiamo, Victoria) and Elsie Selina Hartup (b1898 in Crewick via Ballarat, Victoria). Ernest served in WWI and, following his Discharge, married Elsie in 1919 in Ballarat. Ernest and Elsie settled at Dean via Newlyn where they raised their family and Ernest was a Farmer.
Bill worked as a Farm Hand for his father in Newlyn prior to service with the ACMF. Following his Discharge, Bill returned to Newlyn where he was a Farmer. Bill died in 2010.