WILLOUGHBY, Sydney Norman
| Service Number: | W47109 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Brunswick Junction, Western Australia, 18 August 1906 |
| Home Town: | Swanbourne, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 5 May 1981, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 9 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W47109, 19 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
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| 2 Apr 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W47109, 19 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Sydney Norman Willoughby (Service No:W47109) served with the ACMF from 9 January 1942 to 2 April 1942. He was attached to 19 Garrison Battalion when he was Discharged as Medically Unfit.
Born in 1906 at Brunswick Junction WA, Sydney was the third of five children of Sydney Stawell Willoughby (b1880 in Stawell in the Grampians, Victoria) and Alice Mary Gilham (b1880 at Pleasant Creek nr Stawell, Victoria). Sydney Snr (a Repairer with the WAGR) and Alice married in Coolgardie in 1902. Sydney Snr worked as a repairer with the WAGR and he and Alice and their children lived in Lilliginnie, Karalee, brusnwick Junction, Coolgardie, Hannan's Junction, Southern Cross and donnybrook. Follwoing Sydney Snrs death in 1922, Alice and the children settled in Fremantle WA.
Sydney worked as a Gardener and Labourer in Swanbourne - in 1929 he was in remand on six charges of theft when he escaped from Pemberton lock up and was recaptured in Manjimup. Sydney lived with his mother and following her death in 1957 resettled at Nedlands, where he died in 1981.