Albert (Ab) THOMASSON

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THOMASSON, Albert

Service Number:	Q213291
Enlisted:	12 April 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Barmoya, Queensland, Australia , 31 August 1909
Home Town:	The Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 3 January 1990, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rockhampton Crematorium, Qld
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World War 2 Service

12 Apr 1942:	Involvement Private, Q213291, Page missing from Enlistment Register
12 Apr 1942:	Enlisted
12 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q213291, 13th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
20 Jun 1945:	Discharged
20 Jun 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q213291, 13th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Albert Thomasson (Service No:Q213291) served in the ACMF with 13th Battalion VDC (QLD) from 12 April 1942 to 20 June 1945.

Born in 1908 at Barmoya, Rockhampton QLD, Ab was the second of nine children of Samuel Storey Thomasson (b1876 in Rockhampton, QLD) and Emma Louisa Nitz (b1880 at Crocodile Paddock, Rockhampton, QLD). Samuel (a Miner) and Emma married in 1907 in Rockhampton QLD and settled at Barmoyah, The Caves via Rockhampton where they raised their family and Samuel was a Selector and Dairy Farmer.

Ab was a Dairy Farmer on Bethele Farm at Barmoya, The Caves via Rockhampton - he was an amateur Boxer, member of The Caves Rifle Club and Chairman of The Caves Sporting Committee. In 1940 in Rockhampton, Ab married Hazel Winifred Rayner (b1919 in Surrey, London) and the couple settled at Bethele Farm where Ab was a Dairy Farmer. Hazel died in 1980 and Ab in 1990.

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