Olive Margaret MOLLOY

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MOLLOY, Olive Margaret

Service Number:	99499
Enlisted:	15 April 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Born:	Beverley, Western Australia, 29 March 1921
Home Town:	Coolup, Murray, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocery Shop Assistant
Died:	Meadow Springs, Mandurah, Western Australia, 27 July 2011, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Cremated
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World War 2 Service

15 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 99499, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
13 Aug 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 99499, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Olive Margaret Molloy (Service No:99499) enlisted in the WAAAF on 15 April 1942 at No 4 Recruiting Station Perth as an Aircraftwoman - mustered as Messwoman. Aircraftwoman Molloy was described in her Attestation Paper (NAA) as 'A reliable steady type. Understands service requirements'. Aircraftwoman Molloy was posted to HQ Pearce, and in December 1942 was mustered as Cook. Promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1944, Corporal Davies was attached to No 4 Aircraft Depot (AD) at Discharge on 13 August 1945.

Olive was born in Beverley, Western Australia in 1921, fourth of nine children of Clement Hubert Karlovsky (b1882 in Prague, Czech Republic) and Annie Elizabeth Thomson (b1889 in Leith, Scotland). Clement (a Motor Mechanic) arrived in Western Australia in 1906 and Annie immigrated in 1910, arriving in Fremantle on board the Ormuz. Clement and Annie married in 1912 in Perth, where Clement worked as a Motor Mechanic. Clement and Annie lived in Beverley, Coolup and Goomalling, where Clement was a Motor Mechanic before settling in Perth in 1925. The family lived in Victoria Park and Subiaco in Perth (and briefly in Coolup again in the late 1930s), where Clement worked as a Motor Mechanic.

Olive was a Grocery Shop Assistant in April 1942 when she enlisted in the WAAAF, and in 1942 in Perth married her first husband Norman Peter Thomas Molloy (b1917 in Perth, Western Australia) - Norman was in the Army (Service No:WX12330). Following Discharge, Olive and Norman settled at Mt Magnet via Kalgoorlie, where they raised their family and Norman was a Miner. In 1958 Olive was working a Cook at Lake Grace Hospital, and in 1968 in Perth remarried to William (Bill) Howard Davies (b1919 in Toodyay, Western Australia). Bill had served in the Army in WWII (Lance Corporal; Service Nos:W29807/WX18654), and worked as a Driver in Toodyay following Discharge from the Army. Olive and Bill settled in Glen Forrest in Kalamunda, where Bill was a Bee Keeper until his death in 1980. Olive died in Mandurah in 2011.

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