ROSS, Rosalind Enid Diane
| Service Number: | 106370 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 September 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Aircraftwoman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 17 February 1914 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Perth Ladies' College, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk and Cashier |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 30 December 1977, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 28 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 106370 | |
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| 24 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 106370 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Second of three siblings who served in WWII, Aircraftwoman Rosalind Enid Diane Ross (Service No:106370) enlisted in the WAAAF on 28 September 1942 at No 2 Recruiting Centre Sydney - mustered as Driver Motor Transport (DMT). ACW Ross was attached to 7 Stores Depot at Discharge on 24 January 1946.
Nene was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1914, second of five children of Robert James Ross (b1885 in Armidale, New South Wales) and Emily Rose Mary Symonds (b1882 in Albany, Western Australia). Robert completed a five year Apprenticeship in Yarloop, and was a Locomotive Fitter in 1911 when he and Emily married in Bunbury. The couple settled in Perth, where they raised their family and Robert was a Locomotive Fitter until the 1930s when he joined the Civil Service as an Inspector of Machinery. Robert enlisted in the AIF in 1916 (Private; Service No:3641), serving less than a fortnight before he was Discharged at the request of the Munitions Committee.
Nene worked in Perth as Secretary to the Italian Counsel, and was Captain of the Nedlands Hockey Club and a member of the Kings Park Tennis Club and WA Aero Club. Nene moved to Inverell, New South Wales in the late 1930s (her sister and brother were working there) and worked as a Show Girl. By 1942, when she enlisted in the WAAF, Nene was working in Sydney as a Clerk and Cashier at the Glacarium Skating Rink, and was separated from her husband, William Edward Lisle Curley (b1905 in Toowoomba, QLD), whom she had married in Sydney in 1940. Following her Discharge from the WAAF, Nene lived in Sydney where she worked as a Bookkeeping Clerk. Nene later returned to Perth, where she died in 1977.
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