MAXWELL PHILLIP GEORGE TEMPLAR

Born

on 28 January 1923 at Stowport.

Connection to South Riana

Lived in Loyetea, buried in South Riana.

Parents

Phil TEMPLAR and Janet Ruth JEFFREY who were married at Penguin on 17 October 1916.

Siblings

Doris Ruth 1917 - 2000

Ralf John 1919

Thelma Jean 1920 – 1978

Rita Elizabeth 1925 - 2015

Vonda May 1927

Dawn Averill

Clem Alfred 1932 – 2001

Janet Ruth 1940 – 2008

Married

Betty Ann GOOD (1935) on 25 February 1952 in Ulverstone.

Family

Jeanette Anne 1952

Leslie Philip 1955

Annette Margaret 1964

Died

on 28 June 2010 and is buried at South Riana.

School Records

#218 Cuprona. Enrolled on 28 January 1923 by his father Phillip Templar, labourer of Cuprona, living ½ mile from the school. He had attended school previously at Wivenhoe (no records available) which he left in August 1932 in Grade III.  At Cuprona he completed Grade III and was promoted to IV in 1933, and then in 1934 and 1935 he was in V. He did not pass the Compulsory Standard but left on 27 September 1935 as he had left the district.

Military Records

Service number T28367 with 12/50 Btn. Enlisted at Burnie on 6 January 1942 aged almost 19, next of kin father Phillip Templar of Cuprona. Max was an unmarried motor truck driver. He was admitted to

 III General Hospital at Campbell Town (Tas) with influenza and became dangerously ill, so was sent to

 III General Hospital in Hobart where he was diagnosed with Tubercular Pleurisy. He spent some time in a convalescent home in Claremont before being classed as ‘medically unfit’ for ‘services not occasioned by his own default’. He was discharged on 12 December 1942.

Photographs of Max courtesy of the Templar family, particularly wife Betty and daughter Jeanette Hawes.