MORAN, Dick
| Service Number: | NX30488 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1916 |
| Home Town: | Grafton, Clarence Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, 22 August 1982, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 12 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX30488 | |
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| 23 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX30488, 2nd/1st Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kerry Williams
Dick Moran was born John Gregory Moran jun in 1916 at Armidale, NSW and died at Paddington, NSW in 1982.
He was born to Queenie Newman and John Gregory Moran, He was the brother of Frederick Denis Moran, known as Tony, and of their sister Joan Lillian Moran.
Dick joined the army as a baker and served in Crete and Greece. Just before discharge in November 1945, he married May Coleman known as Biddy in Sydney. From the 1950s to the early 1970s, he was resident caretaker with wife Biddy and four children (Barbara, Judy, Richard and Debbie) of Hardy's Chambers,De Mestre Place, 310 George St. Sydney.
Hardy's Chambers De Mestre Place was demolished in 2023 to make way for Sydney Metro West station
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