"Ron" Ronald George LOCKWOOD
Born 10 July 1922 in Fremantle, Western Australia [16]
Son of "Wally" Walter Edward LOCKWOOD and Rosetta May SIMMONS [P40]
Resided with his parents and brother in Carnamah [P39]
Began his education as a student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs in June 1928 [98]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Carnamah in 1929 dressed as a "Parson" [4: 13-Jul-1929]
Student at the Carnamah State School [4: 14-Jul-1934] [7: page 87]
Attended the Carnamah Traders Association's Sports Day & Picnic at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 9 October 1930 [4: 18-Oct-1930]
Following the death of his mother he lived with Percy and Vittoria DEWAR and their children on Ingie Farm in Carnamah [P30]
As Percy and Vittoria DEWAR had a son named Ron he was known as "Big Ron" and Ron DEWAR as "Little Ron" [P30]
Resided with the DEWAR family from the age of about nine until he was aged seventeen and a half years [P30]
Won 1st prize for a Pencil Drawing at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 14 September 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
At the conclusion of 1933 received the prize for the most hardworking student in Grade V of the Carnamah State School [5: 22-Dec-1933]
Along with five others visited Three Springs on Thursday 17 October 1935 to sit for his scholarship examination [5: 18-Oct-1935]
Attended the inaugural Combined School Sports of the Carnamah Road Board district in Carnamah on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5]
Won the 13 years Boys Running Race, and came 2nd in the 13 years and over Boys Broad Jump and High Jump [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Among those from the Carnamah State School who attended a meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board on 16 September 1936 [5]
At the conclusion "in an almost model speech" he thanked the Board for allowing them to attend the meeting [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Inter-School Sports of the Carnamah Road Board district at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Friday 2 October 1936 [5]
Won the 14 Years Boys Running Race, came 2nd in the 13 Years & Over Hop Step & Jump, Broad Jump [5]
Also came 2nd in the 13 Years & Over High Jump, and came 3rd in Throwing the Cricket Ball [5: 9-Oct-1936
Competed for Carnamah at the North Midlands Athletic Sports Meeting in Three Springs on Friday 23 October 1936 [5]
Won the 13 Years & Over Boys Running Race and the 14 Years & Over Boys Running Race [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Later a Student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs [P40]
At the age of seventeen and half years he left Carnamah to take up an apprenticeship with Pope's the butchers in Perth [P30]
Completed his apprenticeship with Pope's, whose butchers shop was opposite Boan's Store in Perth [P30]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 6 July 1942 [16]
Lieutenant WX27819 in the Australian Army's 2/28 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Married former Carnamah resident "Gwen" Gwendolyn Eva PLUNKETT in Perth on 1 June 1946 [P40]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 19 November 1946 [16]
Resided for many years in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant before shifting to South Australia [P30]
Father of Margaret, Suzanne, Barbara, Desmond, Ronald, Kerry, Debbie, Barry and Kim [P40]
Died 5 May 2008 in Nhill, Victoria, Australia; ashes interred at Centennial Park in Adelaide, South Australia (General J, 44, 3686) [P40]
From The West Australian newspaper, Wednesday 12 July 1922:
Births
"LOCKWOOD.−On July 10, at Nurse O'Grady's Private Hospital, Queen Victoria-street, Fremantle, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Lockwood, of East-street, East Fremantle−a son."
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Ronald George Lockwood' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 24 April 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/ronald-george-lockwood [reference list] |
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