Service: Army – HQ AMF
Service number: VX36983
Locality on Enlistment: Colac
Duration of Service: 1 Jan 1942 – 8 Jan 1946
Prisoner of War: No
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 24 Apr 1899 Chilwell, Geelong
Parents: James William VEALE and Harriet Eveline COLLINS
Spouse: Muriel Mildred McKENZIE
School/s: Colac SS
Occupation: Cabinet maker
Date and Place of Death: 26 Jan 1992 Colac
Place of Burial: Colac
NOTES: Eldest of ten children, Charles William Veale (Bill), worked on farm duties and dry stone-walling in the district. Bill served in WWI, and on his return, he introduced the first professional bus service to Colac known as the ‘Blue Bus Service’. Bill and four of his brothers enlisted in WW2. As a Warrant Officer, Bill was appointed to special work at VDC HQ including Intelligence, Map Making and arranging of Coast Watching Posts along the Western District as far as Portland which included plans and reconnaissance sketches of bridges for demolition. In 1944, he commenced duty with the United Kingdom Army & RAF Liaison Staff Headquarters in Melbourne for which he was highly commended and later served in Perth and Darwin.