John James (Jack) WILLIS

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WILLIS, John James

Service Number:	V367652
Enlisted:	17 May 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Drouin, Victoria, Australia, 5 March 1914
Home Town:	Drouin, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Nilma, Victoria, Australia, 22 March 1994, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

17 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V367652, 11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
20 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V367652, 11th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private John James Willis (Service No:V367652) enlisted in the ACMF on 17 May 1942 and was attached to 11 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps when he was Discharged on 20 September 1945.

Born in 1914 in Druin Victoria, Jack was the youngest of three children of George Henry Willis (b1881 in Huntly, Victoria) and Eliza Jane Smith (b1883 in Warragul, Victoria). George (a Farmer) and Eliza married in 1905 and settled at Drouin where they raised their family and George was a Farmer.

Jack was a Farmer at Nilma and in 1950 married Betty May Green (b1919 in Warragul, Victoria). Jack and Betty settled at Nilma where Jack was a Farmer. Jack died in 1994 and Betty in 2014.

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