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Staff Sergeant John Mayberry Winnett (Service Nos:W18357/W17259) enlisted in the ACMF, initially in 1940 when he served for two months as a Private with HQ Canteens, before re-enlisting in June 1941 and serving as a Staff Sergeant with District Accounts Office WA. Staff Sergeant Mayberry was Discharged on 19 November 1946. He had served in WWI (A/Corporal; Service No:3225) and sons James, Frederick and William served in WWII.

Born in 1892 in Clunes Victoria, John was the third of six children of James Joseph Winnett (b1859 in Clunes, Victoria) and Margaret Emma Mayberry (b1860 in Maryborough, Victoria). James (a Labourer) and Margaret married in 1886 in Long Gully nr Bendigo, Victoria. James worked as a Smelterer and the family lived in Clunes Victoria, Alma NSW and Semaphore in South Australia before settling in Fremantle in the late 1890s. James worked in Ravensthorpe as a Smelterer, and Margaret lived both there and in Fremantle.

John worked as a Clerk in Fremantle WA, where in 1916 he married Sarah (Sadie) Marian Hicks (b1895 in Fremantle WA). Following his service in WWI, John and Sadie lived in Fremantle and Perth where they raised their family and John worked as a Clerk. By 1949 John and Sadie had settled in Albany WA where John worked as Assistant Town Clerk. John died in 1961 and Sadie in 1968.