MCDONALD, Sibyl Rose
| Service Number: | VF397065 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 December 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) - Unallotted |
| Born: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia , 11 April 1923 |
| Home Town: | Frankston, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Noosa, Quensland, Queensland, Australia, 3 February 2002, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 29 Dec 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VF397065 | |
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| 30 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VF397065, Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) - Unallotted |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Sibyl Rose McDonald (Service No:VF397065) served in the Australian Women's Army Service from 29 December 1942 to 30 October 1945. Brother Frank also served in WWII.
Born in 1923 in Mildura Victoria, Tuppy was the eldest of two children of Dallas Athorn Crook (b1885 in Melbourne, Victoria) and second wife Violet Kathleen Clipperton (b1899 in Melbourne, Victoria). Dallas (a Labourer) and Violet married in 1922 in Melbourne, Victoria and following Dallas' death in 1925 after a lengthy illness, Violet remarried in Melbourne in 1930 to Alexander James McDonald (b1882 in Eaglehawk, Victoria). Violet and Alexander settled in Frankston in Melbourne where Alexander worked as a Labourer and Motor Driver. Violet's two children took on their step-father's name - McDonald.
In 1951 in Frankston in Melbourne, Tuppy married Leslie Thomas Gavin (b1927 in Frankston, Victoria). Tuppy and Leslie settled in Frankston where Leslie worked as a Salesman, Manager and Director and in the 1970s Tuppy was a Mail Carrier. Leslie died in 1979 in Frankston and Tuppy died in Noosa, QLD in 2002.
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