Stanley Charles (Jim) WITNEY

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WITNEY, Stanley Charles

Service Numbers:	V56786, 53960
Enlisted:	16 August 1940
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Melbourne University Regiment
Born:	Dimboola, Victoria, Australia, 19 February 1916
Home Town:	Brim, Yarriambiack, Victoria
Schooling:	Warracknabeal High School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Primary School Teacher
Died:	Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 29 June 2003, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
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World War 2 Service

16 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56786, Melbourne University Regiment
25 Mar 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56786, Melbourne University Regiment
14 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 53960
30 Oct 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 53960

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman Stanley Charles Witney (Service No:53960) initially served in the Militia (Private; Service No:V56786) with Melbourne University Rifles from 16 August 1940 to 25 March 1942. He enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 14 April 1942 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as a Flight Mechanic. During 1942 ACI Witney was attached to No 4 School of Technical Training (STT) Adelaide, No 1 Engineering School (ES) Ascot Vale, and No 11 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) Benalla. Promoted to LAC in 1943 - remustered as Fitter - he was attached to 1 Wireless Air Gunners School (WAGS) Ballarat and in 1944 to No 7 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Deniliquin. LAC Witney was attached to 7 SFTS at Discharge on 30 October 1946. He was one of five siblings who served in WWII.

Jim was born in Dimboola, Victoria in 1916, ninth of ten children of Walter William Witney (b1870 in Dimboola, Victoria) and Emilie (Millie) Pauline Miller (b1879 in Dimboola, Victoria). Walter (a Farmer) and Millie married in 1901 in Dimboola and lived there and in Jeparit and Warracknabeal where they raised their family and Walter was a Farmer.

Jim worked as a Clerk in Warracknabeal whilst he was waiting to join the Education Department as a Primary School Teacher. Prior to enlistment, he taught at Willenabrina and Brim and, following his Discharge, was in Bendigo in 1947 when he married Rita Louisa Gallaugher (b1919 at Diggers Rest, Victoria). Jim and Rita lived in Bendigo, Beech Forest and Melbourne where they raised their family and Jim was a Teacher. In the 1970s they settled in Frankston, where Jim died in 2003. Rita died in 2009.

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