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Leading Aircraftman Archibald Angus McNaughton (Service No:118965) enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Trainee Technical and later as Wireless Assistant and then Wireless Maintenance Mechanic. Promoted to Leading Aircraftman on 16 August 1943, he completed No 18 Wireless Assistants Course (29 February 1943 - 21 May 1943) and Wireless Mechanics School Melbourne (13 September 1943 - 27 March 1944). In April 1944, LAC McNaughton embarked from Townsvilee for Milne Bay, and served at Milne Bay, Nadzab and Madang with 10 Signals Unit and Wireless and Telegraphic (W/T) Stations. LAC McNaughton was attached to 15 Wireless/Telegraphic Station at Discharge on 3 January 1946.

Arch was born in Yarram, Victoria in 1914, fourth of five children of Donald (Thomas) McNaughton (b1875 at Durham Lead, Victoria) and Maud Amy Blair (b1888 in Hazelwood, Victoria). Thomas (a Labourer) and Maud married in 1908 in Yarram, and lived there and in Heyfied and Meeniyan where Thomas was a Labourer and Sawmiller. In 1919 the family settled at Cowwarr via Toongabbie - where Thomas was a Farmer - before moving to Melbourne in the early 1930s. Thomas worked as a Sawyer and Labourer.

Arch worked as a Photographer in Melbourne, where in 1937 he married Joy Frances Moss (b1916 at Diamond Creek, Victoria). Arch was a Munitions Worker with Commonwealth Explosives Factory when he enlisted in the RAAF in 1942. Joy lived in Newcastle, NSW during Arch's service with the RAAF, and in 1946, following Arch's Discharge, he and Joy settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Arch worked as a Phone Mechanic. Arch died in 1983 and Joy in 1999.