DUNDON, William Michael
| Service Number: | 119387 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 October 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
| Born: | Surrey Hills , Victoria, Australia, 27 September 1924 |
| Home Town: | Surrey Hills, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Swinburne Technical College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 28 July 2021, aged 96 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tweed Valley Lawn Cemetery Eumundi Terrace Row A Allotment No.43 RIP |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 119387, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 8 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 119387, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots | |
| 4 May 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 119387, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Tony Dundon
The boy's father, Bill, did not want them to join the infantry, the familiy had had a bad experience with WW1, and in WW2 their uncle Arthur P. Taylor had been lost at El Alamein with no word of his whereabouts at that time.
Consequently elder brother Tom (418651 Thomas Anthony Stephen Dundon (/explore/people/796931)) joined the RAAF and left for Pilot training in Canada, bad luck for Tom that they needed WAG's more than pilots. (Tail gunner's in the RAF Lancaster bombers had the highest casulty rate of any position in war - Tom probably thought the infantry actually looked good at this point).
When Mick (William Michael) turmed 18 he enlisted for service with the RAAF as a tradesman and was made a Leading Aircraftman before being sent to the Darwin airfields.
Mick injured his hand and was moved to the hospital at Marysville, during which time the Japanese bombed Darwin. Mick finished the war in Darwin with 9 Replenishment Center which supplied munitions to allied aircraft deployed in the Pacific theater.
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