PATTEN, George Edwin
| Service Number: | WX785 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 11 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 20 February 1914 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18 May 1998, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Corporal, WX785, 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), 6th Division | |
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| 11 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX785, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Aug 1945: | Discharged Corporal, WX785, 11th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), 6th Division | |
| 11 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX785, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Corporal, WX785, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ted was the fifth of eight children of Edwin Benjamin Patten (born 1882 in Glenelg, South Australia) and Annie May Elizabeth Sanders (born 1888 in Adelaide, South Australia. Edwin was Wood Cutter in Boulder, Kalgoorlie, WA in 1909 when he married Annie. By 1914 Edwin, Annie and six chidren had moved to Cottesloe Beach in Perth, WA where Edwin was working as a Horse Driver when he enlisted in the AIF (Sapper, Service No:4442) with the 6th and 3rd Tunnelling Coys. Following WWI, the family moved to Pinjarra, where Edwin was a Farmer.
Ted was in Kalgoorlie, WA when he enlisted in the Australian Army in November 1939. He served with 2/11 Infantry Battalion (Corporal, WX785), which was raised at Northam, WA in October 1939. Ted deployed to the Middle East in 1940, and was a PoW at Unsleben in Germany. Ted was Discharged in August 1945. Brothers Herbert Benjamin Patten (Leading Aircraftman, Service No:80053) and Walter Alfred Patten (Private, Service No:11307), and sisters Kathleen Dora Patten (Sergeant, RAAF, Service No:99816) and Amy Reta Patten (Private, Australian Womens' Army Service, Service No:WF56628) also served in WWII.
Returning to Perth, WA Ted was Bus Driver in 1947 when he married Dorothy Evelyn Skewes (nee Nielson, born 1918 in Kalgoorlie, WA). Ted and Dorothy settled at Mosman Park in Perth, WA where Ted worked as a Bus Driver. Dorothy died in 1974, and Ted continued living in Mosman Park where he worked as a Lumper (unloading trucks) until retirement. Ted died in 1998.
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