SCHACHE, Ronald Leslie
Service Numbers: | 411331, QX7265 |
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Enlisted: | 4 July 1933 |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 2nd/1st Forestry Unit RAE |
Born: | Marrickville, New South Wales, 25 December 1911 |
Home Town: | Dutton Park, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Coopers Plains State School |
Occupation: | Goodna Asylum attendent |
Died: | Natural causes, Greenslopes, Queensland, 16 September 1970, aged 58 years |
Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Memorial Wall for Servicemen |
Memorials: |
Non Warlike Service
4 Jul 1933: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), 411331 |
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World War 2 Service
23 Apr 1940: | Involvement Private, QX7265 | |
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23 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Private, QX7265, Kelvin Grove, Queensland | |
23 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX7265 | |
24 Dec 1945: | Discharged Corporal, QX7265, 2nd/1st Forestry Unit RAE | |
24 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX7265 |
His Service & Brothers
Ronald Leslie Schache served in the Militia from 1933 then joined the AIF as soon as the call went out to form the second AIF.
He was one of 4 brothers who served during WWII. Both older brothers were long term Navy servicemen - Walter Herbert Schache KIA HMAS Sydney in Nov 1941 had enlisted in 1919. The next older brother Bernard Vincent Schache had enlisted in the Navy in 1926. Ronald's younger brother Norman Henry Schache also served in the Army.
Submitted 15 April 2022 by Ian Schache