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Leading Aircraftman Philip Marino (Service No:127803) enlisted in the RAAF on 12 March 1943 as an Aircraftman I at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne - mustered as Trainee Telegraph Assiatant, later as Telegraphist. ACI Marino attended Signals School Point Cook and was stationed in the Northern Territory in 1944 - with 55 Operational Base Unit (OBU) at Gorrie Airfield, with No 11 Signals Unit at Adelaide River, with 53 OBU at Batchelor and at Sattler. LAC Marino embarked from Darwin for Morotai on 16 January 1945, returning to Darwin on 27 August 1945, and was attached to Air Force HQ Telecommunications Unit at Discharge on 6 March 1946. His father and three older brothers also served in WWII.

Phil was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1925, the fourth child (and youngest son) of Phillip Marino Snr (b1892 in Edinburgh, Scotland) and Annie Grace Jack (b1893 in Innerleven, Fifeshire, Scotland). Phillip was a Labourer before enlisting in the British Army in 1914 (Corporal; Regimental No:721; France). Phillip was Discharged in 1920, and he and Annie (a Spinner) married in Glasgow, where Phillip worked as a Labourer until 1928. Phillip and Annie emigrated in 1928 with their five children, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Demosthenes. The family settled in Trafalgar, where Phillip worked as a Labourer.

Phil was a Postal Assistant in Trafalgar in 1943 when he enlisted in the RAAF and, following his Discharge, he returned to Trafalgar where he was a Postal Officer with the Post Master General's Department in 1953 when he married Mary Patricia Kennedy (b1930). Phil and Mary settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Phil was a Postal Officer. Phil died in 1984 and Mary in 2000).