WOOLLEY, John Thomas
| Service Number: | QX15976 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | GEORGETOWN, QLD, 5 December 1914 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Bougainville, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 21 May 1945, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, QX15976 | |
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| 31 Dec 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 31 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX15976 | |
| 21 May 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
John and his brother Edward (Ned) and their friend Norman Henry all members of the 58 Field Park Co., were all cattle drovers in the Gulf country of far North Queensland. John was a quiet block. Off duty he would always find him stitching leather, making harness for the trio's horses, for when they returned to the old job back home. In one job bulldozing out a "Flying Jeep" strip for spotting planes he came near to having his hair parted. Like many of us in the earth moving equipment platoon, when we had been on Bougainville a few months John was detached to another unit. That was the worst of our platoon - first class operators, and always wanted for a job somewhere around. The jungle was dozered to clear a passage for the infantry so they could get at the Japanese. Then it came to the job of clearing a minefield and John was one of the four selected. Someone tripped a booby trap and John was killed. A.G.B. Farmer of Wangary via Port Lincoln for Sentry-Go October 1958.