MOLLOY, Norman Thomas Peter
| Service Numbers: | W10430, WX12330 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Docks Operating Company |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 14 July 1917 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 19 September 1986, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W10430, 28 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 2 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX12330 | |
| 12 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, WX12330, 2nd/2nd Docks Operating Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Norman Thomas Peter Molloy (Service Nos:W10430/WX12330) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 20 September 1940 as a Private attached to 28th Battalion, and enlisted in the AIF on 2 May 1941 with 21 Group Reinforcements AASC. Sapper Molloy served in the Middle East (7 November 1941 - 15 March 1942) and completed two tours in New Guinea (5 September 1942 - 20 July 1943 and 12 November 1943 - 8 July 1945). Sapper Molloy was attached to 2/2 Docks Operating Coy at Discharge on 12 November 1945.
Norman was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1917, youngest of three children of Hugh Henry Molloy (b1865 at Gummies Bush, Riverton, New Zealand) and Margaret (Maggie) Ann Hughson (nee Peterson; b1874 on the Shetland Islands, Scotland). Hugh (a Miner in Nullagine) and Maggie (a Widow with three young children) married in Albany in 1911 and lived in Northampton, Youanmi and Yalgoo, where they raised their family and Hugh was a Miner. Hugh died in 1923, and in 1924 received a Royal Humane of Australasia Award (Deeds of Valour) - he lost his life trying to rescue a drowning child.
Norman worked in Yalgoo and Boulder as a Labourer and Plant Hand. In 1942 in Perth he married Olive Margaret Karlovsky (b1921 in Beverley, Western Australia) - Olive served in the WAAAF (Corporal; Service No:99499). Following Discharge, Norman and Olive settled in Mt Magnet - Norman worked as a Miner and Mill Hand. He and Olive divorced - Olive remarried - and Norman lived in Boulder and Kalgoorlie until his death in 1986.
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