Jack Carlton GEDDES

GEDDES, Jack Carlton

Service Number: W237353
Enlisted: 6 November 1939
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF)
Born: Perth, Western Australia, 14 February 1902
Home Town: Perth, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Journalist
Died: Geraldton, Western Australia, 8 November 1960, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

6 Nov 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W237353, Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF)
21 Feb 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W237353, Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Jack (born John Edward) was the eldest child of John Geddes (b1868 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Annie Dwyer (b1868 in Cornella, Victoria). John (an Undertaker) and Annie married in Perth WA in 1901. John and Annie lived in Perth and Kalgoorlie WA where John worked as an Undertaker/Funeral Director, Prospector and Carpenter.

Jack was a student in Perth WA in the 1920s and by 1939 was a Journalist when he enlisted in the ACMF - he stated in his Attestation Papers that his Religious Denomination was ;Free Thinker'. Jack (Sergeant; Service No:W237353) was in Darwin NT on 4 August 1942 and was attached to Army Pay Corps in February 1945 when he was Discharged.

In 1947 Jack was in Kalgoorlie WA working as a Journalist when he married Mavis Caroline Eastlake (b1910 in Day Dawn WA) - Caroline was a Teacher. Jack and Caroline moved to Geraldton WA in 1949 where they settled and raised their family. Jack was a Journalist and Newspaper Editor in Geraldton, where he died in 1960. Mavis died in 1996.

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