SIBBICK, Walter Gerald
Service Numbers: | 39079, S36576 |
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Enlisted: | 8 April 1941, Adelaide |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 108th Reserve Motor Transport |
Born: | Rose Park, SA, 17 October 1920 |
Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
Schooling: | Rose Park Public School |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Oaklands Park, SA, 7 March 1991, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Privately Cremated Ashes scattered at Paringa, South Australia |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
8 Apr 1941: | Involvement 39079 | |
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8 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
8 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 39079, Renmark, SA | |
4 Jun 1941: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 39079, No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor | |
15 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Kensington, SA | |
26 Jan 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S36576, 108th Reserve Motor Transport |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Walter Henry and Agnes Jane Kerr (nee Thomson) SIBBICK, 40 Osmond Terrace, Norwood, SA.
Married, aged 20 years and residing at 4 Catherine Street Kensington, Walter had been educated at Rose Park Public School. He was a member of the Murray Motor Cycle Club and in civilian life worked on fruit blocks in the River Murray District. He joined the R.A.A.F. at Renmark in April 1941 and trained at Mt. Breckan and after two months was discharged as medically unfit. He then joined the Militia and was called up in the 108th Reserve Motor Transport in September 1941 and discharged as medically unfit in January 1942.