Wesley Adolph MEYER

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MEYER, Wesley Adolph

Service Number:	38174
Enlisted:	19 March 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 22 February 1911
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Perth Boys' School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Albany, Western Australia, 14 January 1984, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

19 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 38174
12 Feb 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 38174

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Wesley was the second of eight children of Adolph Henry Meyer (b1889 in Sydney, NSW) and Jessie Florence Gray (b1886 in Melbourne, Victoria). Adolph (a Labourer) and Jessie married in 1908 in Sydney, NSW. Adolph worked as a Boilermaker's Labourer and a Dock Labourer before moving his family to Jarrahdale, WA by early 1916. Adolph was a Greaser/Mill Hand in Jarrahdale WA when he enlisted briefly in the AIF (Private; Service No:4089) from March to April 1916 - he was Discharged as Medically Unfit. By 1931 Adolph and Jessie moved to Carlisle in Perth, WA where Adolph was a Labourer.

Wesley was working as a Miner in Wiluna, WA and in 1935 married Marcia Grace Reid (b1913 in Boulder, WA). The couple settled in Wiluna WA where Wesley worked as Miner and Underground Storeman for Wiluna Mines.

Wesley had served in the Militia with 13th Field Engineers and in March 1941 he enlisted in the RAAF and moved his family to Perth WA. Wesley was an Aircraftman I to Sergeant and worked as a Survey Photographer (Service No:38174). He was with 21 Squadron in Morotai from 12 April 1945 to 20 May 1945 and was Discharged in February 1946.

By 1949 Wesley and his family had settled in Bunbury WA where Wesley worked as a Photographer. Wesley died in 1984 and Marcia in 2008.

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