ARCHER, Frederick James
| Service Number: | 144401 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 September 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Orbost, Victoria, Australia, 26 October 1921 |
| Home Town: | Maffra, Wellington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Builder's Labourer |
| Died: | Sale, Victoria, Australia, 9 February 2010, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sale Public Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Sep 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 144401 | |
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| 15 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 144401 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Frederick James Archer (Service No:144401) enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 2 September 1943 as an Aircraft I - mustered as General Hand. Promoted to Leading Aircraftman, he served with 21 Squadron and 3 Communications Unit, and was stationed at 10 Mile Creek in the Northern Territory from 13 May 1944 to 3 October 1945. LAC Archer was attached to 1 Operational Training Unit (OTU) at Discharge on 15 January 1946.
Born in Orbost, Victoria in 1921, Fred was fifth of nine children of Robert William Donnithorne Archer (b1885 at Bulumwaal via Bairnsdale, Victoria) and Alice Elizabeth Lay (b1890 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania). Robert (a Labourer) and Alice married in 1912 in Orbost, where they settled and raised their family and Robert worked as a Labourer. In the mid 1930s the family moved to Maffra, where Robert worked as a Labourer. Robert was killed in 1955 when he was hit by a car.
Fred worked in Maffra as a Builder's Labourer with the State Electricity Commission, and in 1940 in Sale he married Gwenda Lesley Adamson (b1921 in Sale, Victoria). Fred and Gwenda settled in Sale, where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Labourer. Gwenda died in 2005 and Fred in 2010.
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