GANNAWAY, Clifford Archibald
| Service Numbers: | WX5454, WX5454 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Albany, Western Australia, 3 August 1910 |
| Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Contractor |
| Died: | Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 29 April 1994, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Kalamunda Darling Range Road District Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX5454 | |
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| 20 Dec 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX5454 , embarked Brisbane for Thursday Island on board the Manunda | |
| 10 Aug 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX5454 , embarked Thursday Island for Merauke on board the Islander | |
| 17 Jul 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX5454 , emplaned Merauke for Townsville | |
| 26 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX5454 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Older brothers Percival and Victor, and their father Herbert, served in WWI, and Corporal Clifford Archibald Gannaway (Service No:WX5454) enlisted in the AIF on 30 July 1940 as a Private with No 3 Depot Battalion, then was promoted to Lance Corporal - Trade Group Clerk - attached to 2/13 Field Ambulance. Corporal Gannaway served with 5 Light Field Ambulance on Thursday Island and at Merauke (20 December 1943 - 17 July 1945), and was attached to 2 Special Petrol (DVA) at Discharge on 8 October 1945.
Cliff was born in Albany, Western Australia in 1910, youngest of seven children of Herbert Wilfred Gannaway (b1872 in Gloucestershire, England) and Mary Ann Bradley (b1872 in Kent, England). Herbert immigrated in 1881, arriving in Melbourne with his parents and siblings on board the Superb, and Mary arrived in Melbourne in 1884 on board the John Elder. Herbert and Mary married in Melbourne in 1894, and by 1900 had moved to Western Australia, and settled in the Albany region (Torbay Junction, Bornholm, Martyup Siding, Young's Siding), where they raised their family and Herbert was a Farmer, Postmaster and Horticulturalist. Herbert served in WWI (Private; Service Nos:1708/8863).
Cliff worked in Wagin as a Greengrocer's Assistant, and was a Farmer/Contractor at Bornholm via Albany in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. In 1943 in Perth he married Irene Violet Bristow (b1914 in London, England) - Irene had immigrated in 1928 with her parents and siblings, arriving in Fremantle on board the Esperance Bay, and was working as a Shop Assistant in Subiaco. Following his Discharge from the Army, Cliff and Irene lived at Pickering Brook, where Cliff was a Warder (and Officers' Mess Secretary) at Barton Mill Prison. By 1949 the couple had settled in Fremantle, where they raised their family and Cliff was a Warder at Fremantle Prison, and from the mid 1950s (when he joined the Civil Service), was a Welfare Officer with the Prisons' Department until retirement. Cliff died in 1994, and Irene died in 1995.
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