Soldier profiles

Name : VALENTINE, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Service Number : VX17686 (VX1026)
Date of Birth : 20/02/1902
Place of Birth : CARLTON, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : TRUCK DRIVER, LABOURER, COOK
Date of Enlistment : 27/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : PRAHRAN, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : VALENTINE, ETHEL
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War :
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 15/05/1941
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6208448 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Husband of Ethel May Valentine.

Service & personal summary At enlistment (No.7 drill hall, Chapel St., St. Kilda) : married. Height 5 feet 7 inches, blue eyes, ruddy complexion, grey brown hair. Marks / scars : scar right elbow.

Service record
11/11/1939 Taken on strength Details Depot.
16/11/1939 Posted to 2/2 Field Regiment Seymour, Victoria.
27/11/1939 Evacuated to Camp Dressing Station with bronchitis and pharyngitis.
07/02/1940 Admitted to Camp Dressing Station Ingleburn, Victoria with dermatitis.
08/02/1940 Admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital with skin condition both feet.
15/02/1940 Discharged to D.D.M.S.
15/02/1940 Sent by D.D.M.S. to Camp Dressing Station Ingleburn, Victoria.
13/03/1940 Discharged Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria from 2/2 Field Regiment being medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own default.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. Previous 2nd A.I.F. military experience. Grey eyes, fair hair. Marks / scars : scar right calf, scar below left knee, scar right elbow, scar little finger left hand, scar thumb left hand.

Service record
27/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
29/05/1940 Appointed to Group II cook.
20/09/1940 Transferred from Recruit Reception Depot to 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion Hamilton, Victoria.
10/10/1940 Detached from 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion Hamilton, Victoria to No.3 Cookery School Geelong, Victoria.
17/11/1940 Rejoined unit from Geelong.
01/02/1941 Transferred from 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion to 6 Training Battalion.
28/02/1941 Transferred from 6 Training Battalion to Engineering Training Depot Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
21/03/1941 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
21/03/1941 Posted from Engineering Training Depot Pioneer Wing to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
21/03/1941 Appointment as Group II cook terminated.
30/03/1941 Rejoined 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria from leave.
02/04/1941 Transferred from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion to Recruit Training Camp Caulfield, Victoria for discharge.
03/04/1941 Transferred Recruit General Hospital Caulfield, Victoria.
08/04/1941 Admitted injury left shoulder.
18/04/1941 Discharge to Stonnington Convalescent Hospital.
18/04/1941 Admitted Stonnington Convalescent Hospital with fractured left clavicle.
18/04/1941 Discharged from Stonnington Convalescent Hospital to 109 Convalescent Depot.
06/05/1941 Admitted 109 Convalescent Depot Broadmeadows from Stonnington Convalescent Hospital.
06/05/1941 Discharged fit to Recruit Transit Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
06/05/1941 Taken on strength Recruit Transit Depot.
12/08/1941 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
18/08/1941 Acting cook Group II.
12/09/1941 Transferred from Recruit Reception Depot to School Artillery Anti Tank.
13/09/1941 Taken on strength School Artillery Anti Tank Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
21/11/1941 Transferred from School Artillery Anti Tank Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria to Recruit Reception Depot.
22/11/1941 Posted to Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
25/11/1941 Granted 6 days leave.
01/12/1941 Transferred to 4 Military District (South Australia).
18/12/1941 Transferred to Australian A.A.S.L.? Alice Springs, Northern Territory from Recruit Reception Depot 3 Military District (Victoria).