AITKEN, David Mcmillon
| Service Number: | W38696 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Yarloop, Western Australia, 11 September 1923 |
| Home Town: | Quairading, Quairading, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer (Gas Manufacturer) |
| Died: | Broome, Western Australia, 9 September 1992, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Broome Public Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W38696 |
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World War 1 Service
| 6 Aug 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W38696, embarked Brisbane for Torokina on board Westralia |
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World War 2 Service
| 28 Mar 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W38696, embarked Rabaul for Sydney on board Canberra | |
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| 4 Jun 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W38696 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Youngest of three brothers who served in WWII, Private David McMillon Aitken (Service No:W38696) enlisted in the Army on 8 January 1942 with 28 Battalion - Trade Group Fitter. Private (Craftsman) Aitken served in New Guinea (6 August 1945 - 28 March 1946) with 101 Brigade Workshops, and was attached to 1 Australian Floating Watercraft Workshops AEME at Discharge on 4 June 1946.
David was born in Yarloop, Western Australia in 1923, youngest of six children of William Aitken (b1886 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Lillian Evelyn Marian McMillan (b1886 in Queensland). William had moved to Western Australia in the early 1900s, and was a Farmer in 1909 when he and Lillian married in Wagerup, where they settled and raised their family. In the early 1920s William and Lillian moved to Pithara via Dalwalinu, where William was a Farmer and Contractor before moving to Quairading in the 1930s.
David was a Factory Labourer (Gas Manufacturing) in Quairading when he enlisted in the Army in 1942. Following his Discharge, he settled in Perth, where he was working as a Mechanic in 1948 when he married Olive Mary Andrews (b1928 in Perth, Western Australia). David and Olive lived in Beverley and Pinjarra, where they raised their family and David was a Mechanic. In the mid 1960s they separated and David moved to Broome, where he worked as a Mechanic and was a member (President in 1982) of the Broome RSL Sub Branch. David died in Broome in 1992 and Olive in Mandurah in 2005.
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