Ronald William (Ron) RIX

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RIX, Ronald William

Service Numbers:	QX50051, Q1191, QX50051
Enlisted:	26 March 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Northern Command Area Signals
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 May 1919
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Joiner
Died:	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 10 May 1984, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

26 Mar 1941:	Involvement Lance Corporal, QX50051, also Q1191
26 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX50051
8 Dec 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signaller, Q1191, Northern Command Area Signals, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby per Duntroon
10 Mar 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signaller, Q1191, Five Mile, NG - discharge to enlist in AIF
25 Mar 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signaller, QX50051, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville per Ormiston
10 Sep 1945:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal
17 Sep 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX50051, embarked Cairns for Morotai per Jospeh Carrigan
15 Nov 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX50051, emplaned Morotai for Brisbane
10 Dec 1945:	Involvement Lance Corporal, Q1191, also QX50051
10 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, QX50051

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Corporal Ronald William Rix (Service No:QX50051) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 26 March 1941 as a Signalman (Service No:Q1191) and served with Fortress Signals Brisbane and Northern Command Signals. Signalman Rix embarked from Townsville for Port Moresby on board the Duntroon on 8 December 1942 and was at Five Mile in New Guinea when he Discharged to enlist in the AIF on 11 March 1943. Promoted to Lance Corporal in 1945, he served with Corps of Signals in Morotai (September 1945 - November 1945) and was attached to 34 Signals at Discharge on 10 December 1945.

Born in 1919 in Brisbane QLD, Ron was the eldest of five children of Edgar Gilbert Rix (b1891 at Lanefield, Ipswich, QLD) and Ilean Eliza Seawright (b1896 in Brisbane, QLD). Edgar (a Machinist) and Ilean married in Brisbane in 1918 - Edgar worked as a Machinist until his death in 1934.

Ron worked as a Joiner in Brisbane before enlisting in the ACMF in 1941. He married Valda Allan (b1920 in Brisbane, QLD) in 1942 and following his Discharge, the couple lived in Brisbane where Ron worked as a Carpenter. In the 1950s the family lived in Maryborough and Roma where Ron worked as a Carpenter before moving to Cairns in the early 1960s where Ron was a Building Inspector. By 1972 Ron and Valda had returned to Maryborough where Ron was a Railways Inspector until his death in 1984. Valda died in 2018.

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