WEBSTER, Ronald Frank
| Service Numbers: | Q111913, QX47223 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 November 1936, 21st Heavy Battery RAA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia, 23 November 1918 |
| Home Town: | Townsville, Townsville, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 18 April 1992, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Townsville (Belgian Gardens) Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Nov 1936: | Enlisted Gunner, Q111913, 21st Heavy Battery RAA | |
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| 13 Oct 1941: | Involvement Private, Q111913, also QX47223 | |
| 13 Oct 1941: | Involvement Private, QX47223, also Q111913 | |
| 13 Oct 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 13 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX47223 | |
| 23 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), QX47223, 101 Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment | |
| 15 Sep 1943: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), Mechanical Equipment Company/ies, 2/1 Australian Movement Transportation Group | |
| 1 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX47223, Mechanical Equipment Company/ies, Embarked Townsville QLD per Joe Harris for Torokina, Bougainville, New Guinea | |
| 20 Feb 1945: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX47223, 3 Advanced Ordnance Depot, Embarked Bougainville, New Guinea per Duntroon for Sydney, NSW | |
| 3 Apr 1945: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX47223, Embarked Townsville, QLD per Ormiston for Bougainville, New Guinea | |
| 6 Dec 1945: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), 29th Infantry Brigade 2/AIF | |
| 24 Dec 1945: | Embarked QX47223, 29th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Torokina, Bougainville, New Guinea per River Lodden for Brisbane, QLD 2/1 Australian Movement Control Group | |
| 9 Jan 1946: | Discharged | |
| 9 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX47223 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ronald (Ron) Frank, born in 1918 in Eastwood, NSW was the youngest of two children of Charles Webster (born 1880 in Albury, NSW) and Ellen Nunn (born 1888 in Leichardt, NSW). Charles and Ellen married in Sydney, NSW and moved in 1918 with their two sons to Townsville, QLD where Charles was a Cook.
Ron was a Clerk and living in Townsville QLD when he enlisted in the Australia Military Force in 1936, serving with 21st Heavy Battery RAA as a Private (Service No: Q111913) until Discharged in 1939. He then enlisted in Townsville, QLD in 1941 in the Citizen's Militray Force until he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1943, serving as a Private (QX47223) with 2/1 Australian Movement and Transportation Group, 101 Australian Tank Attack Regiment and HQ 29th Infantry Battalion. Ron was in Torokina, Bougainville, New Guinea from 1944 to 1945, and was Discharged in 1946.
Ron married Doris Elsie Smith (born 1919 in in Townsville, QLD) in 1940 and they lived and raised their family there. Ron continued working as a Clerk and died in Townsville in 1992
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