DROUYN, Jack
| Service Number: | 25481 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 April 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 5 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 5 February 1913 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Agricultural College, Gatton,, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 12 May 1998, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 17 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 25481, No. 5 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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| 23 Oct 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 25481, No. 5 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Wilth his younger brother Victor, Sergeant Jack Drouyn (Service No:25481) enlisted in the RAAF at No 3 Recruiting Centre Brisbane on 17 April 1941 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Storekeeper, re mustered as Equipment Assistant. Sergeant Drouyn served on Horn Island and in Bougainville with 75 and 5 Squadrons, and was attached to No 5 Squadron at Discharge on 23 October 1945.
Born in Brisbane, QLD in 1914, Jack was eldest of three children of William John Drouyn (b1879 in Brisbane, QLD) and Eileen Mabel Tutty (b1889 in Sydney, New South Wales). William was a Compositor in 1912 whe he and Eileen married in Brisbane, where they settled and raised their family. William worked as a Compositor, Secretary and Commercial Traveller, and was a Wine Saloon Keeper (Waratah Wine Depot/Cafe) when he died in 1935.
Jack served in the Militia iwith 9/15 Battalion in 1932 (Private; Service No:411.208), and started work at Wilburra Downs, Richmond as a Jackeroo and then Station Overseer. In 1941 Jack was a Commercial Traveller in Brisbane, and a member of the Royal QLD Yacht Club, when he enlisted in the RAAF. Following Discharge in 1945 Jack lived on Macleay Island in Redland Bay. In the late 1940s Jack worked in Roma as Manager of the Grand Hotel, moving to Sydney in 1949 where he worked as a Shop Assistant. In 1953 in Sydney, Jack married Elizabeth Theodora Wilhelmina Van-den-Broek Humphrey (abt 1911 in Rotterdam, Holland). Jack and Elizabeth lived in Gosford, where Jack was a Field Hand before settling in Hornsby in the early 1960s - Jack worked as a Hydro/Survey Assistant and Groundsman. Jack died in 1998 and Elizabeth in 2003.
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