WHITROD, Donald Alfred
| Service Numbers: | S114175, S114175 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 September 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Plympton, Adelaide, South Australia, 31 July 1922 |
| Home Town: | Plympton, City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cabinetmaker |
| Died: | Uraidla, Adelaide Hills, South Australia, 8 April 2013, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 19 Sep 1941: | Involvement Private, S114175 | |
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| 19 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Glenelg, SA | |
| 19 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S114175 | |
| 27 Nov 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S114175, 22nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Townsville for Lae | |
| 26 Aug 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S114175, 22nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Madang for Brisbane on board USAT Frank Norris | |
| 20 Mar 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Younger of two brothers (Leslie and Donald) who served in WWII, Private Donald Alfred Whitrod (Service No:S114175) enlisted in the ACMF on 19 September 1941 with 3 Autralian Infantry Training Battalion, and was attached to 5 AARD on 28 November 1943 when he embarked from Townsville for Lae. Marched out to 22 Infantry Battalion on 23 February 1944, Private Whitrod embarked from Madang for Brisbane on 26 August 1944 on board USAT Frank Norris. Private Whitrod served in New Britain (Jacquinot Bay) from 6 January 1945 to 9 February 1946, and was attached to 22 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 20 March 1946.
Don was born in Plympton, Adelaide, South Australia in 1922, younger of the two children of Stanley (Stan) Richard Whitrod (b1893 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Priscilla Victoria Blanche Langley (b1894 in Petersburgh, South Australia). Stan was a Farm Labourer in 1916 when he enlisted in the Army (Private; Service No:756), and he and Priscilla married in 1919 in Nangtika. The couple settled in Plympton, where they raised their family and Stan worked as a Labourer and Mental Asylum Attendat. Stan was holidaying at Tooperang in 1939, when he had an accident on his bicycle, and died as a result of a fractured skull.
Don was working in Adelaide as a Cabinetmaker in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army, and in 1943 in Enfield he married Jean Lorna Mathieson (b1921 in New Kingston, South Australia). Following Discharge from the Army, Don and Jean settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family. Jean died in 2006 and Don died in 2013.
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