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Leading Aircraftman Ronald James Paull (Service No:123958) enlisted on 3 March 1943 in the RAAF as an Aircraftman I at No 3 Recruiting Centre Brisbane - mustered as Carpenter Rigger and later as Flight Rigger. ACI Paull attend No 3 School of Technical Training (STT) Sydney and on 3 July 1944 was at No 8 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Bundaberg. He served in Morotai and Tarakan (1945) with No 22 Squadron and was a Leading Aircraftman attached to 3 Aircraft Depot at Discharge on 15 January 1946. On 17 March 1947 in brisbane QLD, he re-enlisted briefly in the RAAF.

Born in 1925 at Torrens Creek QLD, Ron was sixth of eleven children of Victor George Frederick Paull (b1890 in Charters Towers, QLD) and Gladys Marion Bennett (b1894 at Torrens Creek, QLD). Victor (a Labourer) and Gladys married in 1912 at Torrens Creek where they settled and raised their family before moving in the early 1930s to Mackay, QLD. Victor worked in Charters Towers, Torrens Creek, Ingham and Mackay as a Miner, Labourer and Rabbit Catcher. He left his wife and family in the early 1930s and was regularly before the Court on maintenance charges. His failure to support his wife and children resulted in some of the younger children being placed in an orphange - St George's Homes at Parkhurst in Rockhampton.

Ron worked as a Farm Hand and on cattle stations in the Mackay region, and as an Amateur Boxer with Sherman's Exhibition Shows. In 1946 in Toowoomba QLD, Ron married Lorna Mary Crane (b1928 in Toowoomba, QLD). Following Ron's Discharge from the RAAF, he and Lorna lived in Toowoomba where Ron was a Trainee Carpenter and, following their separation, Ron worked in Brisbane as a Barman and later as a Navvy at the Proserpine Sawmill. Ron remarried in Proserpine to Marion Phyllis Hearn (nee Andersen; b1917 in Proserpine, QLD). Ron died in 1999 and Marion in 2017. In his Eulogy (Leonie Dawson; 1999) Ron was described as 'a fortunate man. He led a simple life which was filled with great personal wealth'.