COPPLESTONE, June Elizabeth
| Service Number: | VFX128141 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 January 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 26 September 1919 |
| Home Town: | Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Artist |
| Died: | North Balwyn, Victoria, Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jan 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VFX128141 | |
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| 27 May 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VFX128141 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Marshall
June Elizabeth Copplestone served briefly during 1944. She spent much of that time at Ballarat Base Hospital. In 1946 she married James Harold Ryley Marshall, MVO, Squadron Leader, later an airline pilot fpr Trans Australian Airways. They met when James (Jim, Jamie) was based at Sale air force base. He met her through her sister Valda (later Scott), who was in the women's air force (WAAAF). June regretted not having done the same, as the WAAFs had more fun. Jamie was most impressed by the drawings with which she decorated her room. He would beat up her house, which was in central Bairnsdale, by flying low overhead and waggling the wings of his Bristol Beaufort. They had two children, David and Rosemary, and practiced as an artist, attending the National Gallery School and RMIT.
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