Reuben Charles Henry LINTON

LINTON, Reuben Charles Henry

Service Numbers: SX20274, S6121
Enlisted: 10 July 1942, Puckapunyal, VIC
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/7th Independent Company
Born: Streaky Bay, South Australia, 30 August 1916
Home Town: Hynam, Naracoorte and Lucindale, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Shearer / Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, near Salamau, New Guinea, 28 March 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
Panel No.2 Lae Memorial. His name is located at panel 13; Supplementary panel 7 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Keswick "M" and Z" Special Units Independent Companies & Commando Squadrons Memorial, Lae Memorial, Naracoorte War Memorial, Streaky Bay and District Roll of Honour WW2
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World War 2 Service

10 Jul 1942: Enlisted Puckapunyal, VIC
18 Jul 1942: Involvement Private, S6121, Enlistment/Embarkation WW2
18 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX20274
4 Feb 1943: Embarked Private, 2nd/7th Independent Company, HMAS Canberra (later lost at "Iron Bottom Sound" Guadalcanal
13 Feb 1943: Involvement Private, SX20274, 2nd/7th Independent Company
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography

Born 30 August 1916 in Streaky Bay, South Australia
(SA Birth record 1907 - 1928. Book : 985 Page : 384 District : Fli.)

Father Frederick Charles LINTON (b.26/3/1885 - d. 22/4/1952) and
Mother Ellen Louisa (nee MUNN,  b. 9/7/1887 - d. 12/5/1965)
-- (both buried at Naracoorte, South Australia)
living at Hynam, South Australia.

Siblings
Sister:     Louisa Ivy Eileen Linton  (b.7/11/1911 Hynam, SA - d.13/11/1974 Ceduna, SA)
               m. Frederick Charles Beattie (b.13/8/1907  Smoky Bay, SA - d.1/11/1963 Smoky Bay SA)
               both buried at Streaky Bay, SA.
Sister:     Myrtle Muirhead Jane Linton (b.Dec 1913 at Hynam, SA - d.24/2/1972 Naracoorte, SA)
               m. George Bullock (b.13/8/1911 - d.2/3/1981 Naracoorte, SA)
               both are buried at Naracoorte, SA.
himself:   Rueben Charles Henry Linton (b.30/8/1916 Streaky Bay, SA - d. 28/3/1943 near Salamau)
Sister:     Edna Elizabeth [Peg] Linton (b.18/8/1918 Streaky Bay, SA - d. 8/5/1942 Port Pirie, SA)
               buried at Port Pirie, SA.
Sister:     Audrey Kathleen Linton (b.10/7/1920 Murat Bay, SA - d.14/6/1989 Ceduna, SA)
               m. Lewis Oscar Braendler (b.22/4/1909)
               buried at Ceduna,SA
Sister:     Violet Daphne Linton (b.2/12/1923 Streaky Bay, SA - d.5/3/1994 Naracoorte, SA)
               m. Geoffrey Leonard Brooksby (b.26/4/1921 - d.June 1994)
               both buried at Naracoorte, SA.
Sister:     Coral Jean Linton  (b.29/7/1925 Streaky Bay, SA - d. ___)
               m.20/8/1948 Charles Edward Davis (b.6/12/1918 Rose Park, SA).
Brother:   Harold Frederick Linton  (b.31/12/1927 Streaky Bay, SA - d. ____)
               m. Betty Joan Halliday (b. ____ - d. 6/12/1958 Naracoorte, SA)
               m2. remarried  Sophia Hann.
Brother:   John Mark Linton  (b.1/1/1931 Streaky Bay, SA - d. ____)
               m. Evelyn Gwenda Havelberg  (b.8/9/1930 Cleve, SA - d.28/6/1968)
               buried at Naracoorte

Previous service:
2 1/2 years 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Mount Gambier, SA

Described as 22 years 4 months old; single; 5' 9" tall; 154 lbs;

6/1/1939       Enlisted at Naracoorte in Militia Forces
                    service #S6121 - 3rd Light Horse

24/11/1939   promoted to Corporal in 3rd Light Horse Regiment

17/9/1940     Class A Reserve

19/12/1941    Called up and commenced FTD

16/1/1942      to be driver mechanic

12/6/1942      entrained from SA to VIC

Described on enlisting as 25 years old; single; brown hair; grey eyes;
Church of England

10/7/1942       Enlisted at Hyman, South Australia
                      then onto Puckapunyal, Victoria

13/10/1942     admitted to 107 Australian General Hospital - mumps

22/12/1942     marched out from VIC to QLD

28/12/1942     promoted to A/Corporal
1/2/1943         at own request - reverted to Private

4/2/1943         Embarked on board HMAS Canberra for Port Moresby

13/2/1943       Marched out to 2nd/7th Independent Company

 

28/3/1943       died in action in WWII - New Guinea
                       as a Private in the Australian Infantry, 2/7 Independent Company

28/6/1945       AIF stated 'Body not recovered'
                      NO KNOWN GRAVE

His name is commemorated on Panel No. 2 at the Lae Memorial, within the Lae War Cemetery,
Lae, New Guinea.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  29/3/2015.  Lest we forget.

 

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