Thomas Frederick POCKNALL

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POCKNALL, Thomas Frederick

Service Number:	49381
Enlisted:	12 December 1941
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 10 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 17 October 1923
Home Town:	Tinamba, Wellington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Motor cycle accident, Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 1 November 1948, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Maffra Public Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

12 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 49381, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF)
14 May 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 49381, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frederick Pocknall (Service No:49381) enlisted in the RAAF as an Aircraftman I on 12 December 1941 and mustered as a Flight Rigger and Fitter. LAC Pocknall served at Ascot Vale, Ultima, Malala and Forrest Hill. He was attached to 10 Squadron at Discharge on 14 May 1946 - and later applied to enlist with the Interim Air Force. LAC Pocknall was one of five siblings to serve in WWII - including his twin Len.

Born in 1923 at Maffra Victoria, Tom (with his twin Len) was the sixth of nine children of Leonard (Len) Albert Pocknall (b1884 in Dunedin, New Zealand) and Annie Maxwell (b1886 in Maffra, Victoria). Len Snr was a Carpenter when he arrived in Sydney, NSW in 1907. He and Annie married at Stratford in 1912 and settled in Maffra where they raised their family and Len Snr was a Carpenter.

Tom was a Farm Labourer at Tinamba when he enlisted in the RAAF - and he returned there following his Discharge in 1946. He was working as a Farm Labourer in Tinamba, Maffra in 1948 when he was killed in a motorcycle accident on his way home from work.

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