Walter (Walt) LAKEY

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LAKEY, Walter

Service Numbers:	V245942, V245942,, VX140590
Enlisted:	13 January 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Australian Employment Company
Born:	Welshman's Reef, Victoria, Australia, 12 January 1921
Home Town:	Maldon, Mount Alexander, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Gold Miner
Died:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 30 May 2012, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maldon General Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

13 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245942, 10th Training Battalion
25 Feb 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245942,, Australian Employment Company
26 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140590
23 Jul 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140590, Australian Employment Company, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board CP Steinmetz
23 Feb 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140590, Australian Employment Company, embarked Port Moresby for Brisbane on board Paul Chantler
31 May 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX140590, Australian Employment Company, Medically Unfit

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Walter Lakey (Service Nos:V245942/VX140590) served as a Private in the ACMF with 10th and 4th Infantry Training Battalions and 14 and 27 Labour Coys from 13 January 1942, and was 'in the field' in Sydney NSW on 26 February 1943 when he enlisted in the AIF. Private Lakey served in New Guinea (23 August 1943 - 23 February 1944) and was attached to 35 Employment Coy at Discharge (Medically Unfit) on 31 May 1944. Private Lakey was youngest of four siblings - Bill, Lindsay and Percy - who also served in WWII.

Walt was born at Welshman's Reef via Maldon, Victoria in 1922, seventh of nine children of William Lakey (b1887 in Bradford, Victoria) and Selina Lock (b1892 in Gowar via Maldon, Victoria). William (a Labourer) and Selina married in 1907 in Newstead via Castlemaine, Victoria and lived in Newstead and Welshman's Reef, where they raised their family and William was a Labourer and Woodcutter. In the 1930s the family settled in Maldon, where William was a Gold Miner with two of his sons at the Old Union Mine.

Walt worked as a Gold Miner in Maldon prior to enlisting in the Army and, following his Discharge, returned to Maldon where he worked as a Labourer. In 1977 in Maldon, Walt married Valerie Evelyn Levien (b1928 in Bendigo, Victoria), and they lived at Kangaroo Flat via Bendigo where Walt worked as a Labourer. Valerie died in 1993 and Walt in 2012.

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