Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of George FOX and Dorothy Beatrice nee WILSON; husband of Gladys Joan Fox, of Sherwood. 

A feeling of sadness was cast over a wide circle of friends when it became known that Mr. John Gordon Fox had passed away in Brisbane last week. This fine young man was born  in Bowen 34 years ago, but most of his life was spent in the Proserpine district. Soon after reaching manhood he engaged in the timber industry and later purchased a farm in the Up River area which he worked for some years and then sold out to enable him to enlist in the RAAF early in 1940.
After his discharge at the end of 1945 he received an appointment with Dutch Air Lines, for which company he flew to Batavia, the Gulf of Carpentaria and other places on urgent repair work to disabled planes. Whilst stationed near Brisbane he met Miss Joan Wallis, of Sherwood, whom he married, but like all servicemen, he was denied much home life.  However, he later was employed in a Sherwood garage and was contemplating purchasing a service station in this suburb when he was taken to hospital only a few weeks ago. When his condition became critical his mother, brother and sister-hastened to his bedside. Deceased made firm friends wherever he went for he was the possessor of a sincere  and cheery disposition, and favourably known in sporting circles. He is survived by his wife,, a young daughter and infant son, also his mother, sisters and brother, to whom sincere  sympathy is extended in their great loss.