WILLIS, Frederick Charles
| Service Number: | 46744 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 March 1942, 6 Communications Unit |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Drouin, Victoria, Australia, 1 May 1909 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Warragul High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 13 September 1980, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Esperance Public Lawn Cemetery, Pink Lake, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 46744, 6 Communications Unit | |
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| 21 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 46744, 6 Communications Unit | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Leading Aircraftman, 46744 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Frederick Charles (Charlie) was the middle child of three children of George Henry Willis (born 1881 in Huntly, Victoria) and Eliza Jane Smith (born 1883 in Warragul, Victoria). Younger brother John (Jack) James served in WWII with the ACMF (Service No: V367652).
Charlie was working in Mingenew near Kalggorlie, WA in 1936 as a Station Hand, and in 1937 married Eliza May Gibbs in Perth, WA. In 1942 Charlie and Eliza were living in Greenough, Kalgoorlie, WA where Charlie was a Miner, when he enlisted in the RAAF in Perth, WA, Charlie served as a Leading Aircraftman (Service No: 46744) with 6 Communications Unit and took his Discharge in December 1945,
Following WWII, Charlie and Eliza continued to live in Kalgoorlie, WA where Charlie worked as a Miner until his death in 1980
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