Keith Dodd RAYMOND

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RAYMOND, Keith Dodd

Service Number:	S57519
Enlisted:	31 October 1941, Kadina, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10/48 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Kadina, South Australia, 25 July 1921
Home Town:	Kadina, Copper Coast, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wheat Lumper
Died:	Kadina, South Australia, 31 July 1991, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Kadina Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials:	Kadina Jerusalem Uniting Church WW2 Roll of Honour

31 Oct 1941:	Involvement Sapper, S57519
31 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Kadina, SA
31 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S57519
5 Sep 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S57519, 10/48 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Brisbane for Torokina via Bougainville per Wilfred Grenfell
26 Feb 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S57519, 10/48 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Torokina for Aitape per George Peate
9 Apr 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S57519, 10/48 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Aitape for Brisbane per Taroona
11 Jul 1946:	Discharged

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Keith Dodd Raymond (Service No:S57519) enlisted in the ACMF on 31 October 1941 as a Private with 3rd Training Battalion and transferred to 4th Garrison Battalion on 26 May 1942. Private Raymond embarked with 10/48th Infantry Battalion from Brisbane for Torokina via Bougainville on 5 October 1944 on board the Wilfred Grenfell, and then on to Aitape. He embarked from Aitape for Brisbane on 9 April 1945 on board the Taroona and was a Sapper attached to 11 Australian Troops Coy at Discharge on 11 July 1946.

Born in 1921 at Jerusalem in Kadina South Australia, Keith was the eldest of ten children of Foster Dodd Raymond (b1902 in Jerusalem, Kadina, South Australia) and Edith Rose Schultz (b1905 in Brinkworth, South Australia). Foster (a Labourer) and Edith married in 1921 in Jerusalem, Kadina where they settled and raised their family and Foster was a Labourer.

Keith worked as a Wheat Lumper in Kadina before enlisting in the ACMF. He was in Mackay, QLD in 1946 when he married Annie (Marj) Shaw Miller Hastings (b1915 in Edinburgh, Scotland) - Annie immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1927, arriving in Mackay, QLD on board the SS Orvieto and settling in Mackay, QLD. Keith and Annie settled in Kadina, South Australia where they raised their family. Keith died in 1991 and Annie in 1995.

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