STAPLETON, John William
| Service Numbers: | 74947, QX22789, Q3404 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 March 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) |
| Born: | Nambour, Queensland, Australia, 16 August 1922 |
| Home Town: | Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 19 November 1988, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 5 Mar 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Trooper, 74947, 2/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) | |
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| 13 Aug 1941: | Involvement QX22789, also Q3404 | |
| 13 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX22789 | |
| 25 Mar 1946: | Involvement Private, Q3404, also QX22789 | |
| 25 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX22789 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private John William Stapleton (Service No:QX22789) initially enlisted in the Militia as a Trooper (Service No:74947) with 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment. He enlisted in the AIF on 13 August 1941 and was attached to 10 Vehicle Park Workshop at Discharge on 25 March 1946.
Born in 1922 in Nambour QLD, Jack was the second of five children of Albert Roy Achilles Stapleton MM (b1898 in Charters Towers, QLD) and Lucy Emily Boyce (b1900 in Ipswich, QLD). Albert (a Labourer) and Lucy married in 1921 in Brisbane and moved to Nambour where Albert worked as a Labourer before becoming a Farmer in the 1930s. Albert served in WWI (Private; Service No:7054) and WWII (Lance Corporal; Service No:Q90466).
Jack worked as a Labourer in Nambour, QLD and was in Adelaide, South Australia when he married Elva Dorothy Waite (nee Pilcher; b1916 in Adelaide, South Australia. Elva died in 1982 and Jack in 1988.