CROLE, Frederick Charles
| Service Numbers: | TX14799, TX14799/T102580 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 June 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Training Units |
| Born: | Smithton, Tasmania, Australia, 13 November 1924 |
| Home Town: | Trowutta, Circular Head, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Trowutta, Circular Head - Tasmania, Australia, 30 September 2015, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Circular Head Lawn Cemetery, Tasmania, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jun 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX14799/T102580, Army Training Units | |
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| 22 Jun 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX14799 | |
| 12 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX14799/T102580, Army Training Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Fred was the eldest of three sons of Arthur William Phillip Crole (born 1895 in Warragul, Victoria) and Helen Augusta Mary Whish - Wilson (born 1903 in Ringarooma in Tasmania). Arthur, a Farm Manager and later Farmer, married Helen in 1924 in Trowutta, Tasmania where they raised their three children.
Fred had a family history of military service - Grandfather Frederick Charles Crole served with the AIF as a Sergeant (Service No: 364) and KiA in 1917; Father Arthur was a Private (Service No: 1225) in WWI and in WWII was a Private (Service No: T23419) with the Army Volunteer Defence Corps 4 Battalion, and youngest brother Lawrence served witht the RAAF (Service No: A6285) in the Korean War.
Enlisting in June 1943, Fred served as a Private (Service No: TX14799/T102580) with 12 Infantry Training Battalion. Following his Discharge in December 1945, Fred was working in Trowutta as a Labourer when he married Marjorie Joan Walsh (born 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania). Fred and Marjorie settled in Smithton, where Fred was a Labourer. Marjorie died in 2003 and Fred in 2015.
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