Robert Brutton RICHARDSON

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RICHARDSON, Robert Brutton

Service Number:	28254
Enlisted:	10 December 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Care and Maintenance Units
Born:	Koppio, South Australia, 30 July 1921
Home Town:	Port Lincoln, Port Lincoln, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Eudunda Arch Gates, Port Lincoln Enlistments Honor Roll WW2

World War 2 Service

10 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 28254, Adelaide, South Australia
10 Dec 1940:	Enlisted 28254
11 Dec 1940:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 28254
1 May 1941:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman
1 Apr 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, Clerk Stores SN28254
1 Dec 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, SN28254 Sergeant Clerk Stores
14 May 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 28254, Care and Maintenance Units
Date unknown:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant

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Biography

Joined RAAF Reserve June 1940

Called up December 2 1940

P0STINGS

1 Recruit Depot, Laverton Vic.

1 SFTS Point Cook

2 Bombing and gunnery school Advance party , Port Pirie SA.

3 EFTS Parafield SA

2 AOS Mount Gambier SA

2 ED Bradfield Park NSW

RAAF Station Port Moresby May 1942 were we lived in Air Force Barracks. We saw the sinking of the supply ship “Macdhui” during a Jap air raid. RAAF Station Port Moresby was reformed to 21 Base Wing and later to 9 Operational Group that moved to Guns Gully and in May1943 we moved to Milne Bay and camped in a coconut grove close to the unfinished Wigan strip.

I was posted back to Australia in October 1943 to 2 BAGS Port Pirie. Dad was sick at that time and I took 3 months leave without pay to help with the harvest.

Soon after returning from leave I was posted to 1 Stories Depot Laverton thanes to Air gunnery School West Sale.

When the war ended I was discharged in May 1946

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