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Robert Noel Ebbels (1918–1952)
Robert Noel Ebbels (1918- 1952) law clerk, student, naval officer, Communist and historian Birth: 13 August 1918 at Swan Hill, Victoria, son of native-born parents Alfred Thomas Ebbels (1892-1966), school teacher, later headmaster of Wangarattta High School, and Katie Agnes, née Wood. Unmarried. Death: 7 February 1952, near Gundagai, New South Wales. Religion: Presbyterian or Methodist. Enlisted in the Citizen Military Forces, Carlton, Melbourne, on 5 January 1940 and trained with the Melbourne...