Jack Dermot WHITMAN

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Service Number:	77676
Enlisted:	6 August 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Radar Stations (RAAF)
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 4 August 1913
Home Town:	Landsborough, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Teller, English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited, Brisbane
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 22 April 1944, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave No: Plot T, Row B, Grave 9. Inscription: "His duty fearlessly and nobly done, lovingly remembered."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Caloundra Shire of Landsborough WW2 Roll of Honour, Spring Hill Brisbane Grammar School WW2 Great Hall Honour Board

6 Aug 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 77676, Royal Australian Air Force
6 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Brisbane, QLD
6 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 77676
30 Oct 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, Radar Stations (RAAF), Posted to 340 Radar Station Port Moresby, New Guinea. He died on 22 April 1944. at No. 26 Medical Clearing Station, Los Negros, suffering from scrub typhus.

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Corporal Jack Dermot Whitman 77676 of 340 Radar Station became ill at Bat Island, New Guinea and died at Number 26 Medical Clearing Station