CARROLL, John Albert
| Service Number: | 441843 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 February 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 31 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2 June 1918 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Christian Brothers' College Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Telegraphist |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 14 May 1994, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Feb 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 441843, No. 31 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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| 25 Jun 1944: | Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 2 Air Observers School Mount Gambier | |
| 3 Feb 1945: | Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, No. 5 Operational Training Unit Forest Hill | |
| 3 May 1945: | Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 31 Squadron (RAAF) | |
| 8 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 441843, No. 31 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Flight Sergeant John Albert Carroll (Service No:441843) initially served in the Militia in 1939 before enlisting in the RAAF on 12 February 1944 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth as Aircraftman II. He attended No 5 Initial Training School (ITS) Clontarf and was promoted to Leading Aircraftman at No 2 Air Observers School (AOS) Gambier on 17 June 1944. Promoted to Sergeant in 1945, he served at 5 Operational Training Unit (OTU) Williamtown and was attached to No 31 Squadron as a Flight Sergeant on 3 May 1945. Flight Sergeant Carroll was Discharged on 8 January 1946.
Jack was born in 1918 in Kalgoorlie WA, third of five children of Basil Michael Carroll (b1883 in Guildford, WA) and Teresa (May) Elizabeth White (b1894 in Northam, WA). Basil worked in Northam and Mt Magnet as a Repairer and Fettler for the WAGR, and he and May married in 1913 in Jennacubbine, WA. The couple lived in Harvey, where Basil worked as a Storeman, and in Kalgoorlie where Basil was a Telegraphist in 1916. Basil and May then lived at Kanowna nr Kalgoorlie in the 1920s - Basil was a Railway Worker - before living in Perth and Morowa where Basil worked as a Clerk.
Jack started work at sixteen years of age, working as a Telegraph Messenger for the Post Master General's Department. By 1940, when he enlisted in the RAAF, Jack was a Telegraphist - employment he returned to following his Discharge in 1946. Jack was in Perth in 1947 when he married Moyra Francis McClure (b1923 in Wagin, WA). Jack worked as a Telegraphist in Geraldton (1948) and Perth (1949/1960). In the early 1960s Jack and Moyra were in Port Hedland, WA before returning to Perth in the late 1960s when Jack started work with the Department of Transport as a Flight Service Operator. Jack died in 1994 and Moyra in 2005.
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