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Youngest of four siblings - Paul and Pat (KiA) and John - who served in the RAAF in WWII, Corporal Mary Margaret Looney (Service No:94964) enlisted in the WAAF on 30 May 1942 as an Aircraftwoman at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth, and was posted to WAAF Training Section Pearce - mustered as Clerk General. Corporal Looney served with No 9 Postal Unit, and was attached to HQ Western Area at Discharge on 11 April 1946.

Mollie was born in Bunbury, Western Australia in 1920, youngest (and only daughter) of William (Will) Paul Higgins/Looney (b1878 at Canning Landing in Fremantle, Western Australia) and Victoria Agnes Hehir (b1886 in Huntly, Bendigo, Victoria). Will had been working as a Labourer in Kalgoorlie and was a Telegraphist when he and Victoria (a Barmaid at Daveyhurst via Menzies) married in 1913 in Kalgoorlie. Will and Victoria settled in Bunbury, where they raised their family and Will was a Telegraphist, before moving in the mid 1920s to the Kalgoorlie region - Israelite Bay, Rawlinna and Kanowna - where Will was Chief Telegraphist. Victoria based herself and the children in Perth from the late 1920s, and Will was in Perth in 1942 when he died.

Mollie had been working for almost five years as a Shorthand Typist for The Westralian Australian Farmers Ltd when she enlisted in the WAAF in 1942. In 1945 in Perth, Mollie married Patrick (Pat) Joseph O'Sullivan (b1923 in Bunbury, Western Australia) - Pat was a Leading Aircraftman (Service No:427104) in the RAAF. Following Discharge, Mollie and Pat settled in Perth, where they raised their family and Pat was a Civil Servant. Mollie died in 1990 and Pat in 2000.