FRASER, Dorothy Gwen
| Service Number: | 112029 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Aircraftwoman |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Recruit Centres |
| Born: | Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia , 13 June 1925 |
| Home Town: | Ulverstone, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | State School |
| Occupation: | Paper Sorter & Finisher |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 28 December 1972, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium) R S W 14 B/78 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Sep 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 112029, RAAF Recruit Centres | |
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| 28 Feb 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 112029, RAAF Recruit Centres |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Dorothy was the fourth of eleven children of Victor Arnold Stuart Fraser (b1897 in Railton, Tasmania) and Eileen Elizabeth Barker (b1901 in Penguin, Tasmania). Victor (a Butcher's Assistant) and Eileen married in 1921 in Rocky Cape, Tasmania. They lived in Burnie, Wynyard and Stanley where Victor was a Butcher. By 1936 the family was living in Devonport where Victor was a Labourer,
In 1943 Dorothy enlisted in the RAAF and was an Aircraftwoman (Service No:112029) attached to 6 Recruit Centre when she was Discharged in February 1945. In 1946 in Newcastle, NSW Dorothy married Bernard Arnold Betts (b1924 in Tamworth, NSW) - Bernard had also served in the RAAF (Leading Aircraftman; Service No:74889) and worked as a Clerk.
Dorothy and Bernard settled in Newcastle NSW where Bernard worked as a Clerk. Dorothy died in 1972 and Bernard in 1975.
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