CARTHEW, George Frederick
| Service Number: | W29344 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 19 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Ovens Vale, Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, 19 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Organiser |
| Died: | Kalgoorlie Bouder, Western Australia, 17 August 1978, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, W29344 | |
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| 31 Mar 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, W29344, 19 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Fred was in Perth WA in August 1940 when he enlisted in the ACMF (Service No:W29344). He started off as a Private attached to 13 Infantry Training Battalion and was posted in Chidlow, Kalgoorlie and Northam. By July 1941 he was promoted to Lieutenant and in 1943 was attached to Australian Army Canteen Services. He was Attached to 19 Garrison (WA) Battalion when he was Discharged in March 1944. Fred had served in the AIF (Sergeant; Service No:12) in Egypt in WWI with 10th Light Horse Regiment and Imperial Camel Corps 4th Anzac Battalion.
The youngest of ten children, Fred was born in Victoria in 1895, growing up on Happy Valley Farm in Running Creek, Myrtleford, Victoria. His father was Thomas Henry Carthew (b1840 in Corwall, ENgland) and his mother Margaret Charlotte Macauley (b1854 in Beechworth, Victoria). Thomas had been a Tin Miner in Cornwall, emigrating to Victoria in 1861 and settling at Running Creek in 1862 when land was opened for Selection.
Fred worked for WAGR as a Porter before WWI and again until 1920 when he moved to Maradup in Katanning WA where he was a Farmer. In 1939 Fred married Mary Alexandra McCubbing (b1904 in Perth WA) - Mary was a Typist and had returned from a trip to England in 1933. Fred was working in Perth WA as an Organiser when he enlisted in the ACMF.
By 1949 Fred had settled in Busselton WA where he was a Farmer and Mary remained in Fremantle WA and worked as a Court Reporter. Following a trip to England in 1952, Fred settled at Wattle Grove in WA where he was a Farmer, then moved to Wonthella near Geraldton WA where he was a Farmer. Fred retired to Boulder Kalgoorlie, WA where he died in 1978. Mary died in 1998.
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