WHISH-WILSON, Cosmo Colquoun
| Service Numbers: | 88087, 88087 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | 6 Recruit Centre |
| Born: | Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia, 4 April 1922 |
| Home Town: | Roger River, Circular Head, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairy Farmer |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, October 2008, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 88087 | |
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| 31 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 88087, RAAF Recruit Centres | |
| 30 Jan 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 88087, 6 Recruit Centre | |
| 30 Jan 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 88087, RAAF Recruit Centres | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Leading Aircraftman, 88087, No. 1 Operational Training Unit (RAAF) Nhill, Bairnsdale, East Sale |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Cosmo, born in 1922 in Scottsdale, Tasmania, was the second of seven children of Cosmo Mcausland Colquhoun Whish - Wilson (born 1890 in Launceston, Tasmania) and Helena Mary Crole (born 1898 in Bunbury, Western Australia). Father Cosmo was a Farmer, and older brother Frederick (born in 1920) served as a Sapper (Service No: T6595) in WWII with the Australian Army.
Cosmo was a Farm Labourer at Roger River in Darwin, Tasmania when he enlisted in Hobart Tasmania in the RAAF in 1941. Following his Discharge in 1945, Cosmo returned to farming at Roger River in Tasmania
In 1955, Cosmo married Vera Dorothy Clough, a Stenographer living and working in Brisbane, QLD. They moved to Toowoomba, in the Darling Downs in QLD where Cosmo worked as a Fencing Contractor. He died in Toowoomba, QLD in 2008
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