Walter Baldwin BLACK

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BLACK, Walter Baldwin

Service Number:	43110
Enlisted:	27 June 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	1 Tactical Air Force Labuan
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 4 March 1910
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Employee (Night Officer)
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 October 1996, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
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World War 2 Service

27 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 43110
8 Oct 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, Milne Force Signals, 10 Signals Unit Milne Bay – remustered as Telegraphist
25 May 1945:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 1 Tactical Air Force Labuan
30 Nov 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 43110

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Walter Baldwin Black (Service No: 43110) enlisted in the RAAF on 27 June 1941 as an Aircraftman at No 3 Wireless Air Gunnery School (WAGS) Maryborough - mustered as a Wireless Operator. By 10 November 1941 he was a Leading Aircraftman at 3 SST Ultimo and was promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1942, then Sergeant on 1 December 1942. Sergeant Black served with 10 Signals Unit Milne Bay (remustered as a Telegraphist on 8 October 1943), with 13 Signals Unit Nadzab in April 1943, and 4 RIMU Noenfoor in August 1944. On 25 May 1945 Sergeant Black transferred to 1st Tactical Airforce Telecommunications Unit (TAF TCU) Morotai - the 1st TAC was formed on 25 October 1944 to provide a mobile force of fighter and ground attack aircraft to support Allied units fighting Japan in the SW Pacific Area. Sergeant Black was Discharged on 30 November 1945. His two brothers - Frank and Douglas - served in the ACMF and RAAF in WWII.

Born in 1910 in Toowoomba QLD, Walter was the eldest of three children (sons) of Walter Samuel Black (b1885 in Brisbane, QLD) and Florence (Florrie) Elsie Costin (b1886 in Brisbane, QLD). Walter (a Railway Porter) and Florrie married in 1909 in Brisbane, QLD where they settled and raised their family and Walter was a Porter and Guard with QGR.

Walter worked as a Porter with QGR in Kurilpa, Murgon and Tiaro from 1925 and was a Night Officer when he enlisted in the RAAF in 1941. In 1948 Walter married Christine (Nancy) Annie Benyon (b abt 1927) and the couple lived at Lowood and Oxley where Walter worked for QGR as a Night Officer and Station Master. Walter died in 1996 and Nancy in 2004.

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