John Harold MCNAUGHTON

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MCNAUGHTON, John Harold

Service Number:	VX70764
Enlisted:	5 January 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Yarram, Victoria, Australia, 5 July 1908
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 September 1979, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

5 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX70764, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion
6 Aug 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX70764, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby
11 Feb 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX70764, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville on board Kanimbla – hospitalised Dengue
17 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX70764, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal John Harold McNaughton (Service No:VX70764) enlisted in the AIF as a Private on 5 January 1942 and was attached to 6th Training Battalion. Promoted to Corporal on 23 June 1942, he was attached to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion when he embarked with his Unit on 6 August 1943 from Townsville for Port Moresby. On 11 February 1944, Corporal McNaughton embarked on board the Kanimbla from Port Moresby for Cairns, where he was hospitalised with Dengue. Corporal McNaughton was attached to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion at Discharge on 17 October 1944.

John was born in Yarram, Victoria in 1908, eldest of five children of Donald (Thomas) Mc Naughton (b1875 at Durham Lead, Victoria) and Maud Amy Blair (b1888 in Hazlewood, Victoria). Thomas (a Labourer) and Maud married in 1908 in Yarram, and lived there and in Traralgon, Heyfield and Meeniyan, where Thomas worked as a Sawmiller. In 1919 the family settled at Cowwan via Toongabbie, where Thomas was a Farmer until moving the family to Melbourne in the early 1930s. Thomas worked as a Sawyer and Labourer.

John worked as a Labourer and Miner in Melbourne where, in 1938 he married his first wife Mary Monica Leahy (b1908 in Euroa, Victoria). Mary, a Textile Worker in Melbourne, died in 1939. John was a Widower when he enlisted in the Army, and following his Discharge was a Linesman with the Postmaster General's Department in Melbourne, where in 1945, he remarried to Mary Catherine Walton (b1902 in Pitfield, Victoria). John and Mary settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and John worked for the PMGs Department as a Linesman and Line Foreman. John died in 1979.

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