MORONEY, Terence Allan
| Service Numbers: | N273275, NX110403 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | General Details Depot |
| Born: | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 31 March 1923 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Banora Point, New South Wales, Australia, June 2008, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 8 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, N273275, General Details Depot | |
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| 13 Aug 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, N273275 | |
| 14 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX110403 | |
| 25 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX110403, embarked Townsville for Milne Bay on board the Tarooma | |
| 29 Jun 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX110403, embarked Milne Bay for Brisbane on board USAT Howell Cobb | |
| 11 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX110403 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Terence Allan Moroney (Service Nos:N273275/NX110403) initially served with the ACMF as a Gunner attached to North Battery Fixed Defence Command (FDC) from 8 July 1941 to 13 August 1942, before enlisting the next day in the AIF. Corporal Moroney (Gun Fitter) served with 155 MM Battery, and was attached to Milne Bay Fortress Workshops in New Guinea (25 March 1943 - 29 June 1944). Corporal Moroney was attached to 11 Australian Base Workshops at Discharge on 11 December 1945.
Eighth of nine children, Terry was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1923 to Richard (Dick) Joseph Moroney (b1885 in Liverpool, New South Wales) and Mary Jane Allan (b1888 in Sydney, New South Wales). Dick and Mary married in 1904 in Sydney, where they settled and raised their family. Dick worked as a Bricklayer, and was a Rugby player for Western Suburbs and Glebe (1908 - 1911), before serving in the AIF (Private; Service No:4862). Following his Discharge from the Army, Dick and Mary lived in Sydney and Orange, and Dick worked as a Bricklayer. The couple divorced in 1949.
Terry worked in Sydney as a Storehand and as a Fitter and Turner for Smith, Sons & Rees before enlisting in the Army. In 1945 in Sydney, he married his first wife Helen Mavis Peterson (b1926 in Clermont, QLD). Following his Discharge from the Army, Terry and Helen lived in Sydney, where Terry worked as a Carpenter. By the late 1960s the couple had separated, and Terry worked in Sydney (Dee Why and Collaroy Plateau) as a Cleaner. In 1992 in Sydney he remarried to Julie Narelle Little (nee Tant; b1945 in Sydney, New South Wales). Terry and Julie settled at Banora Point in Tweed Heads, where Julie died in 1995 and Terry in 2008.