Given Names: Wilhelm Rupect Surname: MULLER Nickname: Rupert
Gender: Male
Birth:28 February 18882323 -- Carrington Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Death:17 April 1961 (Age 73) -- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Note: Rupert Muller was privately educated (by tutor) at Gladstone, South Australia, where his father held the Gladstone "Commercial" Hotel, then at Pulteney Grammar School. Adelaide. As a young man and prior to the 1914 -1918 war he worked on cattle boats plying between northwest of Western Australia and India with blood horses for the Indian Army and the Indian princes. In 1913 he married Bonnie Rogers, daughter of R.E.E. Rogers who was the Adelaide Government Printer from 1910 to 1927. His wife was a lovely woman with red-gold hair. She was of English-Irish ancestry. At the age of 29 years Rupert enlisted in the 9th Field Ambulance, 1st A.I.F. He served overseas and demobilised Sept. 23rd 1919 after 2 years & 47 days service. Abroad 1 year, 95 days. On his return he joined the Government Printing Office doing clerical work for some years. His wife died in 1923 and also their infant son and was a time of great grief for him. Later he went into business as a printer's supplier with Ethelbert Bendal (one time Mayor of Unley) and was doing very well until the Depression which put an end to the venture. He worked at the Islington Railway Workshops for a number of years after being out of work during the Depression, then during W.W.2 he joined the Allied Works Council and worked at both Adelaide and Alice Springs doing clerical work. After the war he worked for the P.M.G. Dept. and retired in 1953.
When his first wife died he was living at North Gleneig and her parents who had purchased a house back to back with the Mullers looked after Bill who was an infant of 2 years. The older boys lived with their Muller grandparents. Mrs. Rogers died in June 1928 and Bill then lived with his brothers at the Muller grandparents. Then Grandma Muller died so Rupert rented houses at different parts of St. Peters and Payneham and the boys lived with him. He remarried in 1937 Lucy Casey and resided for a number of years at Llandower Ave. Payneham. Bill boarded with them until he went into the Navy in 1944. The two older boys were living elsewhere. Finally they purchased a house at Aroha Tce., Forrestville where they lived until their deaths in 1961 and 1963.
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