Alvan Ernest WHITTLE

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WHITTLE, Alvan Ernest

Service Numbers:	W13931, w13931, WX29124
Enlisted:	30 August 1940, 121 Australian Reserves Motor Transport Coy
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Cottesloe, Fremantle, Western Australia, 20 September 1919
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Jarrahdale Primary School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Car Driver and Mechanic
Died:	Mindarie, Western Australia, 28 September 2008, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury, Western Australia
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World War 1 Service

30 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, W13931, 121 Australian Reserves Motor Transport Coy

World War 2 Service

9 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, w13931, 121 Australian reserves Motor Transport Coy
10 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX29124
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX29124

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Driver Alvan Ernest Whittle (Service No:W13931) served with 121 Australian Reserves Motor Transport Coy from 13 August 1940 until 9 August 1942 when he joined the AIF. He served as a Private (Service No:WX29124) in Morotai and Tarakan (3 April 1945 - 21 November 1945) and was attached to 2 Australian Infantry Troops Ordnance Field Park when he was Dicharged in December 1945.

Born in Cottesloe, WA in 1919 Alvan was the second of four children of Ernest William Whittle (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Louisa Lillian Hutchinson (b1896 in Perth, WA). Ernest (a Grocer) and Louise married in 1917 in Perth, WA and lived in Perth and Jarrahdale where Ernest worked as a Clerk and Storekeeper before retiring to Rockingham, WA.

Alvan worked as a Labourer and Car Driver/Mechanic in Perth and was an Australian Rules Footballer - he played twenty games for East Perth (1940 - 1941) and West Perth (1946 - 1951) and one game for Hawthorn Football Club (jumper no: 19) in 1944. Alvan returned to Perth, WA following his WWII service, and was a Shop Assistant in Perth in 1949 when he married Doris Eva Heffernan (b1924 in Northam, WA). Alvan and Doris settled in Perth WA where Alvan worked as a Shop Assistant, Storekeeper and Van Driver. Alvan died in 2008 and Doris in 2013.

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