John Frederick PARKS

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PARKS, John Frederick

Service Number:	419212
Enlisted:	17 July 1942
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, 27 June 1912
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Real Estate Agent
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 August 2008, aged 96 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

17 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 419212
17 Apr 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 419212

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flying Officer John Frederick Parks (Service No:419212) served in the Militia (Private; Service No:18885570) with 39th Battalion from 7 October 1930 to 12 December 1932. On 17 July 1942 he enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruting Centre Melbourne as an Aircraftman II - graded Clerk - then Leading Aircraftman. LAC Parks was attached to Nos 2 and 5 Fighter Sectors and 1 Fighter Wing before appointment as Pilot Officer on 9 October 1943. Pilot Officer Parks was attached to 102 Fighter Section and 207 Radar Station, and on 9 April 1944 was attached to 55 Operational Base Unit (OBU) Birdum in the Northern Territory when he was appointed Flying Officer. At Discharge on 17 April 1945, Flying Offier Parks was attached to 105 Fighter Sector. Brother Raymond (Leading Aircraftman; Service No:53794) and sister Joan (Bombardier; Service No:VF388669) also served in WWII.

John was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1912, second (and eldest surviving) of four children of John (Jack) McAlpine Parks (b1890 in Horsham, Victoria) and Emily Ruby Sallery (b1891 in Melbourne, Victoria). Jack (a Hairdresser) and Emily married in 1910 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Jack was a Hairdresser.

John started work as a Clerk (Law), and was a Real Estate Agent in 1938 in Melbourne when he married Jessie Wilson McKay (b1915 in Melbourne, Victoria). John and Jessie settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and John was a Real Estate Salesman and Agent. John died in 2008 and Jessie in 2014.

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