REID, John Charles
| Service Number: | W76034 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 12 May 1918 |
| Home Town: | Yelbeni, Trayning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 9 February 2008, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 26 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W76034, 15th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 18 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W76034, 15th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W76034, 15th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private John Charles Reid (Service No:W76034) enlisted in the ACMF at Trayning in WA on 26 April 1942. Private Reid was attached to 15th Battalion (WA) VDC at Discharge on 18 October 1945.
Born in Perth, WA in 1918, John was second of three children of Peter Reid (b1889 in Edinburgh, Scotland) and Ann (Annie) Mary Kennedy (b1888 in Ireland). Peter was a Miner when he arrived in Fremantle WA in 1908, and worked as a Farm Hand in Greenough before he and Annie married in Claremont in 1914. They settled at Yelbeni via Toodyay where they raised their family and Peter was a Farmer.
John worked at Yelbeni as a Farmer with his father and in 1949 married Patricia (Pat) Jean Hammond (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Pat, a Bank Officer in Melbourne, served in the AWAS (Sergeant; Service No:Vf388483). John and Pat settled at Yelbeni via Toodyay where John was a Farmer. In the 1950s the family moved to Bridgetown, where John was a Farmer, before moving to Dunsborough in the early 1970s and working as a Plant Operator. John died in 2008 and Pat in 2017.