HOEY, George Joseph
| Service Number: | A31219 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Darlington, Durham, England, 13 December 1909 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Joiner |
| Died: | Warners Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 5 June 1993, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Jan 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, A31219 |
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Korean War Service
| 14 Jul 1952: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, A31219 | |
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| 21 Aug 1952: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, A31219 | |
| 7 Jul 1953: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette: 7 July 1953 on page 3743 at position 18 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 9 July 1953 on page 1899 at position 20 |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Jul 1960: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, A31219 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Warrant Officer George Joseph Hoey (Service No:A31219) served in the Militia (Sergeant; Service No:222835) with 9 Battalion and 11 Field Brigade from 1 July 1927 to 30 June 1931. He enlisted in the RAAF on 16 January 1939 and saw service in the Korean War - he was awarded a Mention in Dispatches 'For efficient service and devotion to duty as Warrant Officer in charge of maintenance with No 77 Squadron, Korea' (AWM). Warrant Officer Hoey was attached to 2 Aircraft Depot Richmond at Discharge on 8 July 1960.
Born in 1909 in Durham England, George was the seventh of eleven children of George Joseph Hoey Snr (b1874 in Yorkshire, England) and Jane Baxendale (b1879 in Lancashire, England). George Snr (a Joinery Machinist) and Jane married in Lancashire in 1901 and immigrated to Brisbane, QLD with their first seven children in 1911 on board the Ayrshire. The family settled in Brisbane where George Snr was a Woodworking Machinist - in the late 1930s he worked as a Barman at the Victory Hotel in Gympie, QLD - owned by son George. George Snr had returned to Brisbane by 1940.
George worked as a Joiner in Brisbane before becoming Licensee of the Victory Hotel in Gympie, QLD in the 1930s. In 1941 in Sydney NSW, George married Edna Maiden Dunne (b1914 in Denilquin, NSW) - Edna was working as a Stenographer. George remained in the RAAF until 1960 when he and Edna settled in Sydney and George worked as an Engineer. In the early 1970s the couple retired to Shoalhaven Bay, NSW. George died in 1993 and Edna in 2010.
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