Maurice Edward WALL

Maurice Edward WALL Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

WALL, Maurice Edward

Service Number:	27862
Enlisted:	8 October 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	No. 40 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Swan Reach, South Australia, 12 May 1913
Home Town:	Nildottie, Mid Murray, South Australia
Schooling:	Howard Correspondence College, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Mechanic
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 8 July 1982, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Hindmarsh Cemetery, S.A. The South Australian Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Gawler Council WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

8 Oct 1940:	Involvement Corporal, 27862
8 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
8 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 27862
8 Feb 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 27862, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots, Tadji and Port Moresby
12 Dec 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 27862, No. 40 Squadron (RAAF), Tadji and Port Moresby
7 Jan 1946:	Discharged
Date unknown:	Involvement

Help us honour Maurice Edward Wall's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Maurice Edward Wall (Service No:27862) enlisted in the RAAF on 8 October 1940 at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Trainee Mechanic, re mustered as Flight Mechanic and then as Fitter. Leading Aircraftman Wall was attached to 54 Squadron Port Pirie and 1 Aircraft Depot Laverton. Promoted to Corporal, he served in New Guinea - Tadli and Port Moresby - with 40 Squadron and No 12 Repair and Salvage Unit (RSU) from 8 February 1945 to 12 December 1945. Corporal Wall was attached to 40 Squadron at Discharge on 7 January 1946.

The eldest of six children, Maurice was born at Swan Reach, South Australia in 1913 to Edward (Ted) Wall (b1880 in Mallala, South Australia) and Clara May Rowe (b1887 in Germantown, South Australia). Ted worked as a Mail Contractor at Booborowie before he and Clara married in 1909 in Bakara. The couple settled at Netherleigh via Swan Reach, where they raised their family and Ted was a Farmer. In the 1930s they moved to Mannum, where Ted worked as a Labourer.

Maurice worked as a Farm Labourer at Barraba via Balaklave before working at Arthuron Garage on the Yorke Peninsula as a Mechanic in 1938. When he enlisted in the RAAF in 1940, he was working as a Mechanic in Nidlottie. Following his Discharge in 1946, Maurice settled in Gawler, where he was working as a Mechanic in 1949 when he married Mercia Viola Beryl Thomas (b1915 in Glenelg, South Australia) - Mercia served in the WAAAF (Aircraftwoman; Service No107460) in WWII. Maurice and Mercia settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Maurice worked as a Mechanic and later as a Gardener. Mercia died in 1970 and Maurice in 1982.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia