Roy Arthur WHITEMAN

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WHITEMAN, Roy Arthur

Service Number:	W80946
Enlisted:	5 June 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies
Born:	Middle Swan, Western Australia, 13 May 1903
Home Town:	Middle Swan, Swan, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Concrete Caster/Brickmaker
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 30 May 1955, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Saint Mary's Cemetery, Swan City , Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

5 Jun 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W80946, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies
24 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W80946, Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Roy Arthur Whiteman (Service No:W80946) enlisted in the ACMF on 5 June 1942 and served with 29 Garrison Battalion. In March 1944 Private Whiteman was attached to 26 Employment Coy, and Discharged on 24 January 1946.

Born in 1903 in Middle Swan WA Roy was the sixth of seven children of Ernest (Ernie) Whiteman (b1868 in Sussex, England) and Hannah (Annie) Hadrill (b1870 in Upper Swan, WA). Ernest emigrated in 1886, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Otago. Ernie (a Brickmaker) and Annie married in 1894 in Upper Swan, WA where they settled and raised their family and Ernie was a Brickmaker. Firstborn son - Harold Ernest (1895 - 1916) was the 1915 WA Rhodes Scholar. He was a 2nd Lieutenant with No 7 Reserve Squadron Royal Flying Corps when he was killed in October 1916 when the Maurice Farman Shorthorn Aircraft A949 he was flying crashed near Shipton Bellinger (Parkhouse Military Camp) in Hampshire, England.

Roy worked as a Brickmaker in Middle Swan and in 1927 married Charlotte (Lottie) Crooke Francis (b1909 in Glasgow, Scotland) - Lottie had arrived in Fremantle WA with her parents and siblings in 1913 on board the Belgic and the family settled in Midland Junction, WA. Roy and Lottie divorced in October 1946 and Roy worked as a Brickmaker in Middle Swan until the early 1950s when he worked as a Salesman in Midland Junction WA. Roy died in 1955 and Lottie in 1967.

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