Jack Edward PAYNTER

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PAYNTER, Jack Edward

Service Number:	PA2014
Enlisted:	28 January 1941, Port Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2
Born:	Semaphore, South Australia, 29 August 1920
Home Town:	Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Employee of General Motors Holden's Ltd.
Died:	Killed in Action, Sunda Strait, Netherlands East Indies, 1 March 1942, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 76, Column 1, Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, East Fremantle HMAS Perth (I) Memorial, Ottoway Congregational Church WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

28 Jan 1941:	Involvement Ordinary Seaman, PA2014, HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2
28 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Port Adelaide, SA
28 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Seaman, PA2014
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Born 29/8/1920 in Semaphore, South Australia
Source : South Australian Births 1907 - 1928, Book : 61A Page : 404 District : PtA.

Father: Arthur Charles John PAYNTER and Mother: Barbara Sybil DREVER.

Siblings:
Arthur William PAYNTER b. 4/8/1916 Semaphore, SA
Frederick George Arthur PAYNTER b. 22/2/1912 Semaphore, SA
SX30391 Kenneth Neil PAYNTER b. 10/10/1922 Semaphore, SA
Robert Lawrence PAYNTER b. 18/2/1914 Semaphore, SA
Thelma Barbara PAYNTER b. 28 Jan 1925 Semaphore, SA

RAAF, Ordinary Seaman onboard the HMAS Perth.

1/3/1942 killed in action at Sunda Strait, Netherlands East Indies

Name is commemorated at:
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Panel 76 Column 1

His name is commemorated on Panel 6 at the Australian War Memorial,
Canberra, ACT.

His name is commemorated at Woodville, SA.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 13/9/2016. Lest we forget.

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Able Seaman Jack Edward Paynter, 21, of Rosewater Gardens, was employed at General Motors Holden's Ltd. before he elisted in the Navy and served at Birkenhead and Flinders Naval depots. He was then drafted to the Perth.

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