JACKSON, Wilfred William
| Service Number: | Q90150 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 9 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | District Accounts Office (Qld) |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 6 August 1909 |
| Home Town: | Yeppoon, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Rockhampton Central Boys State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 7 July 1993, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 9 May 1941: | Involvement Q90150 | |
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| 9 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, Q90150 | |
| 9 May 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 7 Sep 1942: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF) | |
| 13 Apr 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Australian Field Cash Offices | |
| 12 Jul 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q90150, Australian Field Cash Offices, ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Canberra | |
| 25 Sep 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q90150, District Accounts Office (NG), emplaned Nadzab to Townsville | |
| 13 Feb 1946: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, District Accounts Office (Qld) | |
| 11 Dec 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, Q90150 | |
| 11 Dec 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Wilfred William Jackson (Service No:Q37003) enlisted in the ACMF on 9 May 1941 as a Private attached to 1st Labour Coy before transferring to Australian Army Pay Corps (AAPC) on 7 September 1942. He was promoted to Corporal on 13 April 1943, attached to 6 Australian Depot Cash Office and embarked from Townsville to Port Moresby on 12 July 1943 on board the Canberra. Corporal Jacksom was attached to District Accounts Office when he emplaned from Nadzab - in the Markham Valley in New Guinea - for Townsville. Promoted to Staff Sergeant on 13 February 1946, he was attached to MD Accounts Office at Discharge on 11 December 1946.
Born in 1909 in Rockhampton QLD, Bill was the youngest of three children of John Jackson (b1880 in Gympie, QLD) and Rose Amy Louisa Webb (b1885 in Rockhampton, QLD). John (a Carrier in Mt Morgan, QLD) and Rose married in Rockhampton in 1903 and lived at Mt Morgan before they separated and Rose lived in Rockhampton, remarrying in 1917. John lived in Mt Morgan where he worked as a Carrier, Teamster and Labourer.
Bill was working as a Postal Clerk in Yepoon, QLD in 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF. He was in Brisbane, QLD in 1942 when he married Mabel Jean Brock (b1902 in QLD). Following his Discharge, Bill and Mabel settled in Brisbane, QLD where Bill worked as a Commonwealth Public Servant - as a Postal Clerk with the Postmaster General's Department in 1949 and by 1970 as a Clerical Assistant with the Department of Treasury. Following Mabel's death in 1973, Bill moved to Rockhampton where he died in 1993.
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