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BRUCE SANDERS’ RECORDS AT THE AWM

Posted by nellibell49 on December 7, 2009

http://cas.awm.gov.au/privaterecord/PR01895

AWM Collection Record: PR01895
ID Number:
PR01895

Title:
Sanders, Bruce (Warrant Officer Class 2) 1920-

Maker:
Sanders, Bruce

Object type:
Papers

Place made:
Australia

Date made:
1931-2001

Measurements:
2 boxes: x 28 cm + 2 folio

Summary:
Personal papers of Warrant Officer Class 2 Bruce Sanders, including: school, employment and Army service records; personal diary covering war service and post-war life; membership records of 2/3 Pioneer Battalion Association, kept during term of office as Assistant Secretary.

Copyright:
External copyright

Copying provisions:
Makers papers – copying permitted

Access:
Open

Related subject:
Correspondence; Diaries; Documentation; Rolls

Related unit:
2/3 Pioneer Battalion

Related conflict:
Second World War, 1939-1945

Last-Modified: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:43:24 GMT

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DIARY: PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Posted by nellibell49 on March 19, 2009

BRUCE SANDERS NX27395

BORN DULWICH HILL 19 JUNE 1920
ENLIST MOORE PARK 19 JUNE 1940
DISCHARGE SHOWGROUND 19 NOVEMBER 1945

 

Before enlisting, home, Ham and Beef Shop. 584 New Canterbury Road, Hurlstone Park.

Proprietor: FATHER. JOHN GEORGE SANDERS.

    BORN PLACE DIED PLACE
FATHER. JOHN GEORGE SANDERS. 10-4-1881 KINCHELA 10-11-1950. SYDNEY
MOTHER. ELIZABETH SANDERS.
nee CRAIG		 1880 KINCHELA 28-12-1943. SYDNEY
  MARRIED 28-8-1905.   KINCHELA    
DAUGHTER DORIS 1907 KINCHELA 21-1-1932  
SON CLYDE 1909 KINCHELA 19-2-1979  
DAUGHTER MAY 1911 KINCHELA 5-6-1991  
DAUGHTER VERA 1913 KINCHELA 21-6-1967  
SON BRUCE 1920 SYDNEY 5-6-2005 BELLINGEN
DAUGHTER BETTY 1927 SYDNEY    

 

SCHOOLS

KINDERGARTEN HURLSTONE PARK 1925-28
PRIMARY CANTERBURY 1928-32
INTERMEDIATE HIGH PETERSHAM 1933-35
TECHNICAL ULTIMO 3 NIGHTS PER WEEK 7-9pm
CARPENTRY & JOINERY APPRENTICE 4th YEAR COMPLETE.

 

B.S. Married JOYCE BELL. Born 29-11-1926, Died 28-8-2001. from ROSEBERY at MASCOT. 23-10-1948.

B.S. lived

1940 2 ROSLYN ST ASHBURY
1941 HURLSTONE PARK
B & J lived  
1953 27 PAXTON AVE BELMORE
1974 42 MORGO ST URUNGA
1975 7/25 MORGO ST URUNGA
1984 35 BELLINGEN ST URUNGA

 

CHILDREN.

DAUGHTER LYNNE B 19-10-1949
DAUGHTER SUSAN B 26-5-1952
SON JON B 17-12-1955

 

“SUPREMA PETO” = AIM FOR THE HIGHEST.

Motto – PETERSHAM INTERMEDIATE BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL.

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DIARY: EX PAY BOOKS.

Posted by nellibell49 on March 19, 2009

DATE RANK PAY RATE
19-6-1940 PRIVATE 5/-  DAY
19-7-1940 TO CORPORAL 9/- DAY
19-12-1940   +2/- DEFERRED
28-7-41 ACTING SERGEANT 10/- A DAY + 2/-
1-11-41 EMBARK 11/- + 2/-
7-11-41 INCREASE 12/- + 2/-
19-1-42 CONFIRM  
14-8-42 INCREASE 12/6 +2/-
1-3-43 DISEMBARK 11/6 +2/-
8-9-42 EMBARK 11/6 +2/-
20-2-45 A/WOII 12/6 +3/-
22-3-45 REVERT 11/6 +2/-
3-4-45 EMBARK 12/6 +2/-
13-7-45 A/WOII 13/7 +3/-
12-9-45 CONFIRM  
20-11-45 DISEMBARK 12/6 +3/-

 

CARPENTER AND JOINER 5’6” tall. 1677mm. 4th YEAR APPRENTICE
1940 129lbs. 9 stone 3lbs. 59kgs.
1945 63 kgs
1997 83 kgs
2000 74 kgs
2001 89 kgs
2002  

2/3 PIONEER BATTALION ASSOCIATION.

FORMED 1945 PRESIDENT KEITH WHITFIELD ?
BRUCE SANDERS  
ASSISTANT SEC 1957-1957
SECRETARY 1958-1968
EDITOR 1958-1970

 

MAY 1940.

BORN ne’er soldier to be

Then Dunkirk thunder’d o’er the sea.

Britons fighting that all be free.

To join them, comes the call to me.

B.S.

B.S.SERG PIC

WHY ?

“ Peace for the kids, our brothers freed,

A kinder world, a cleaner breed.” Anon. Soldier of the 8th Army.

Quoted at the unveiling of Alamein Memorial. 24 October 1954.

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DIARY ENTRIES.

Posted by nellibell49 on March 15, 2009

This diary started 23 March 2002 Saturday from 1982 diary donated by Russell Green who BS (BRUCE SANDERS) worked for from 1967 to 1992 for NEETA HOMES and war diaries , notes , memories.

Russell Green owes B.S. $11567.

1992 to 1999 for IMPALA HOMES.

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2/3 PIONEER BN 2nd A.I.F.  

“PIONEER BATTALION”- trained to fight as infantry or to carry out comparatively simple engineering work. WWII – Corps troops, not of a Brigade.

 

Hence triangular colour patch.

PURPLE = engineering.

 

“PIONEER” – to open or prepare a way.

“PIONEER” – one of a body of foot soldiers detailed to make roads, entrenchments etc in advance of the main body.

“PIONEER” – one who clears the way for others.

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FORMED – GLENFIELD NSW JULY 1940

FIRST complete battalion overland to Darwin. 1941.

LAST complete battalion by ship to Middle East. 1941.

ATTACHED 6 Div Syria, 7 Div Syria, 8 Div Darwin, 9 Div Syria, Palestine, Egypt, New Guinea (NEW GUINEA), Tarakan, Australia.

 

Colour patch = Purple – engineering. White – infantry. Grey – A.I.F. -2nd Australian Imperial Force.

 

Volunteered to serve anywhere for duration of war and 12 months thereafter.

 

 

 

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