Jack Roslyn TANGNEY

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TANGNEY, Jack Roslyn

Service Number:	29110
Enlisted:	22 October 1940
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 25 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Narrogin, Western Australia, 21 November 1919
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Fremantle Boys School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Floor Layer and Truck Driver
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 10 September 1963, aged 43 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

22 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 29110
22 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 29110
19 Apr 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 18 Squadron (RAF)
16 Aug 1944:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 25 Squadron (RAAF)
18 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 29110
Date unknown:	Involvement Leading Aircraftman, 29110, No. 25 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Jack was the fourth of 5 children of Daniel Tangney (born in New Zealand) and Mary (Dot) Anna Josephine Lawsen (born in Cairns, QLD). Daniel served with the Railway Corps as a Private (Service No: 17014) in 1918 and worked in regional WA as a Railway Guard, and a Hotelkeeper in Dampier, WA in 1916.

Jack attended Fremantle Boys School in 1933, and lived and worked in Perth, WA as a Shop Assistant, Truck Driver and Floor Layer prior to his enlistment in Perth, WA in the RAAF in 1940. Jack married Norma Dorothy Connery in 1941 and following his Discharge in 1945 he lived in Narrogin WA and worked as a Mail Contractor.

In 1949, Jack had moved his family to Greenmount, WA and was employed as a Mail Contractor. By 1958 he was contracting in Rockingham WA and at his death in 1963, Jack was contracting in Peth, WA.

Brother Daniel Lawsen Tangney served as a Sergeant (Service No: WX6540) with the Australian Army 3 Reinforcements 9 Division Signals from 1940 to 1945, and brother Frederick Canning Tangney served as a Leading Aircraftman (Service No: 81162) in the RAAF 7 Communications Unit from 1942 to 1945

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