JOHNS, Douglas Richardson
| Service Numbers: | N271885, NX113568 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Australian Veterinary Hospital |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 2 January 1919 |
| Home Town: | Killara, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Veterinary Surgeon |
| Died: | Kincumber, New South Wales, Australia, 16 January 2019, aged 100 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 9 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, N271885, Australian Veterinary Corps | |
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| 24 Aug 1942: | Involvement Captain, N271885 | |
| 24 Aug 1942: | Involvement Captain, NX113568 | |
| 24 Aug 1942: | Enlisted NX113568 | |
| 24 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Paddington, NSW | |
| 6 Nov 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, NX113568, 1 Mountain Battery, embarked Sydney for Port Moresby | |
| 7 Feb 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, NX113568, Australian Veterinary Hospital, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville on board the Katoomba | |
| 19 Jul 1945: | Discharged NX113568 | |
| 19 Jul 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Captain Douglas Richardson Johns (Service Nos:N271885/NX113568) served as a Veterinary Officer in the ACMF (1941/1942) with Nos 5 and 4 Auxiliary Horse Transpot Coys, transferring to the AIF on 24 August 1942 and was attached to 2 Veterinary Hospital. Captain Johns served in New Guinea (6 November 1942 - 7 February 1944) with 1 Mountain Battery and New Guinea Details Depot. In 1944 Captain Johns was attached to 2 Australian Veterinary Hospital, and at Discharge on 19 July 1945 was attached to Australian Army Veterinary Corps (AAVC).
Born at Broken Hill, NSW in 1919, Doug was second of four children of Ernest Richardson Johns (b1889 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Muriel Isabella Hogg (b1893 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ernest (a Commercial Traveller) and Muriel married at Broken Hill in 1915, and in 1928 they established - and were both Directors of - Campbell & Sutton (wholesale merchants, importers and agents). By 1936 Ernest and Muriel had moved to Sydney with their children, and Ernest, a Merchant, served in the ACMF in WWII as a Lieutenant (Service No:N273419). By the late 1940s Ernest and Muriel had moved to Grose Vale, Kurrajong where Ernest was a Farmer. Following Muriel's death in 1954, he remained at Grose Vale until the early 1960s when he retired, returning to Sydney where he lived with his youngest daughter Wilga, who was a Nurse.
Doug completed his secondary studies in 1936 at Yanco Agricultural High School at Narrandera, and completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney. He was a Veterinary Surgeon in Wagga NSW when he enlisted in the Army in 1941, and following his Discharge in 1945, returned to Wagga with his wife - Joan Miller (b1923 in Manildra, NSW) - Joan was a Teacher in 1944 when they married in Sydney. Doug worked as a Veterinary Surgeon in Wagga, Canberra and Sydney, and also was appointed Quarantine Officer (Animals) for the Health Department (1958) and Veterinary Inspector for the Department of Primary Industry (1963). In the late 1950s, Doug and Joan lived in Jerilderee - Doug was a Farmer - before settling in Sydney in the early 1960s. Joan died in 2012 and Doug in 2019.