GOLDSWORTHY, Jack Frederick Thomas
| Service Number: | 164944 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 July 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
| Born: | Brooklyn, New South Wales, Australia, 20 February 1926 |
| Home Town: | Auburn, Auburn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Technical College, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Apprentice Compositor and Linotype Operator |
| Died: | Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August 1987, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Ryde, New South Wales The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Jul 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 164944, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots | |
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| 12 Mar 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 164944, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Jack Frederick Thomas Goldsworthy (Service No:164944) enlisted in the RAAF on 25 July 1944 at No 2 Recruiting Station Sydney as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Trainee Technical, re mustered as Flight Mechanic - posted to No 2 Stores Depot (SD). Promoted to Leading Aircraftman on 1 June 1945, LAC Goldsworthy was attached to No 7 Aircraft Depot (AD) at Discharge on 12 March 1946.
Jack was born in Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales in 1926, fourth of six children of Thomas Truscott Goldsworthy (b1902 in Sydney, New South Wales) and Nora May Ross (b1905 in Sydney, New South Wales). Thomas and Nora married in 1922 in Sydney, and lived in Hornsby, Brooklyn, Cowra and Sydney, where they raised their family and Thomas worked for the Railways - as a Signalman, Night Officer and Clerk.
Jack was a third year Apprentice Compositor and Linotype Operator (WC Penfold & Co Sydney) in 1944 when he enlisted in the RAAF, and following his Discharge in 1946 returned to Sydney and completed his Apprenticeship. In 1948 in Sydney he married Beryl Elizabeth Arkins (b1927 in Orange, New South Wales). The couple settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Jack worked as a Linotype Operator until his death in 1987. Beryl died in 2010.
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