ANNANDALE, David
| Service Number: | 82592 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 December 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Collie, Western Australia, 30 June 1916 |
| Home Town: | Mount Hawthorn, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gas Worker |
| Died: | Yokine, Perth, Western Australia, 5 March 2009, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Dec 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 82592 | |
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| 10 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 82592 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman David Annandale (Service No:82592) enlisted in the RAAF on 11 December 1942 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Parth as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Trainee Technical and re mustered as Instrument Repairer. LAC Annandale served with No 4 Aircraft Depot (AD), No 55 Operational Base Unit and No 31 Squadron. LAC Annandale was attached to HQ RAAF Station Pearce at Discharge on 10 January 1946. His father - John Williamson Annandale (Private; Service No:5046) - was KiA in France in 1918, step father George Lake (Private; Service No:4297) served in WWI, and older brother John served in WWII.
David was born in Collie, Western Australia in 1916, youngest of five children of John Williamson Annandale (b1881 in Kincardinshire, Scotland) and Ann (Annie) Anderson (b1886 in Dundee, Scotland). John was ten years of age when he commenced working - Jute Worker - and was Coal Miner in 1908 when he and Annie married in Dundee, Scotland. John immigrated in 1912, arriving in Fremantle on board the Gothic, and Annie and their two sons (a daughter had died in 1911) followed in 1913 on board the Australiand. John and Annie settled in Collie, where they raised their family and John was a Coal Miner in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following John's death in 1918, Annie remarried in 1920 to George Lake (b1894 in Newcastle, New South Wales). George was a Coal Miner in Collie before enlisting in the AIF, and he and Annie settled in Collie Burn via Collie, where they raised their family and George was a Carter.
David was a Miner in Collie Burn via Collie in 1940 when he married Margaret Lavinia Woodward (b1920 in Perth, Western Australia). David and Margaret settled in Perth, where they raised their family and David was a Gas Worker with the City of Perth Electricity and Gas Department in 1942 when he enlisted in the RAAF. Following Discharge, David and Margaret settled in Yokine in Perth, where David worked as a Gas Fitter until retirement. Both David and Margaret died in March 2009 within a few days of each other.
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