Jack Clifford BARTLETT

BARTLETT, Jack Clifford

Service Numbers: W12137, WX26876
Enlisted: 16 January 1941
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: Mechanical Equipment Company/ies
Born: Bunbury, Western Australia, 22 December 1915
Home Town: Busselton, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Waterside Worker
Died: Fremantle, Western Australia, 9 September 1974, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

16 Jan 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, W12137, 44th Infantry Battalion
7 Jul 1942: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, W12137, 44th Infantry Battalion
8 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX26876
20 Jan 1945: Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Mechanical Equipment Company/ies
14 May 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, WX26876, Mechanical Equipment Company/ies, ex Brisbane to Torokina per Katoomba
4 Jan 1946: Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Mechanical Equipment Company/ies
8 Aug 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX26876

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Jack was born in Bunbury WA, the only child of Jack Bartlett (b1881 in Armidale NSW) and Elsie Jane Howard (b1889 in Albany WA). Jack (a Plasterer) and Elsie married in Bunbury WA in 1915 and in July Jack Snr enlisted in the AIF. He was KiA in 1916. Jack Jnr was born in November 1915.

In January 1940 Jack was a Waterside Worker in Bunbury WA when he enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:W12137). He was a Lance Corporal attached to 44th Infantry Battalion at Dandaragan WA when he Discharged to enlist in the AIF in July 1942 (Lance Corporal; Service No:WX26876). Jack served in Bougainville (14 May 1945 - 21 February 1946) and was hospitalised with Scrub Typhus. He was a Corporal attached to 6 Australian Mechanical Equipment Workshop AEME when he was Discharged in August 1946.

Jack returned to WA and was working as a Lumper (Wharf Labourer) in Fremantle in 1948 when he married Mavis Isobel Arbuthnott (b1918 in Fremantle WA) - Mavis, a Telephonist before she enlisted in the AAMWS, served from 1942 to 1947 (Private; Service No:WFX38296) in New Guinea and Bougainville. Jack and Mavis settled in Fremantle WA where Jack worked as a Lumper until his death in 1974. Mavis remarried and died in 1986.

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