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Sergeant Patricia Jean Hammond (Service No:Vf388483) enlisted in the AWAS on 31 July 1942 at AWAS LHQ as a Private - graded Clerk. Private Hammond was promoted (1943 to Corporal and 1944 to Sergeant) and was attached to Military History Section LHQ at Discharge on 13 December 1945.

Born at Reservoir in Melbourne, Victoria in 1921, Pat was eldest of three children of Arthur Hamilton Hammond (b1892 in Penshurst, Victoria) and Gertrude Louise Huxley (b1889 in Horton, Tasmania). Arthur (a Clerk) and Gertrude (a Nurse) met in Melbourne where they were both working and married in 1919 in Currie, King Island, Tasmania. They settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Arthur worked as a Clerk and Valuer.

Pat worked in Melbourne as a Bank Officer before enlisting in the Army. Following her Discharge, she was working in Perth, WA in 1949 when she married John Charles Reid (b1918 in Perth, WA) - John, a Farmer, had served in the ACMF (Service No: W76034). Pat and John settled at Yelbeni via Toodyay WA, where they raised their family and John was a Farmer. In the 1950s they moved to Bridgetown, WA where John was a Farmer before moving to Dunsborough in the 1970s where John worked as a Plant Operator. John died in 2008 and Pat in 2017.