FURZER, James Emmett
| Service Numbers: | W14004, WX30858 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 27 October 1916 |
| Home Town: | Subiaco, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tiler |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 22 September 1979, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W14004 | |
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| 29 Jul 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, W14004 | |
| 30 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX30858, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 15 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX30858, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver James Emmett Furzer (Service Nos:W14004/WX30858) initially served in the ACMF from 5 December 1941 to 29 July 1942 with 121 Reserve Motor Transport Coy - trade group Carpenter. Driver Furzer was 'in the field' at Moora when he Discharged to enlist in the AIF on 30 July 1942. Driver Furzer - trade group Coach Trimmer - was attached to 138 Genral Transport Coy at Discharge on 15 October 1945.
Jim was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1916, youngest of six children of Beaumont (Monty) Cornelius Furzer (b1876 in Melbourne, Victoria) and his first wife Mary Theresa Burke (b1880 in Adelaide, South Australia). Monty (a Grocer) and Mary married in 1901 in Perth, where they settled and raised their family. Monty joined the WAGR in 1906 as a Railway Porter, and in 1917 enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:7054). Mary died in 1918 whilst Monty was on Active Service. Monty returned to Australia in 1918, and was successful in applying for passage for his fiancee and her three children from England - Florence Annie Green (nee Norris, b1886 in Somerset, England) arrived in Fremantle with her three children in 1919 on board the Balmoral Castle. Following their marriage in 1919, Monty and Florence settled in Subiaco where they raised their family and Monty worked for the WAGR as a Railway Porter until his death in 1944. Florence died in 1946.
Jim started work as a Cement Worker with Standard Cement Coy, and in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army was a Tiler. In 1942 in Perth, Jim married Billie Georgina Traynor (b1921 in Perth, Western Australia). Following his Discharge from the Army, Jim and Billie settled in Perth, where Jim was a Tiler. Jim and Billie divorced in the mid 1950s - Billie remarried, and Jim worked in Perth and Fremantle as a Tiler and Cleaner until his death in 1979.
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