Marjorie Enid BUTLER

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BUTLER, Marjorie Enid

Service Number:	WR/724
Enlisted:	8 February 1943
Last Rank:	Petty Officer
Last Unit:	HMAS Cerberus (Shore)
Born:	Korumburra, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 25 January 1912
Home Town:	Healesville, Yarra Ranges, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Nurse
Died:	Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 19 November 1982, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland
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World War 2 Service

8 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, WR/724, HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base)
8 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, WR/724
25 Jul 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, WR/724, HMAS Cerberus (Shore)
25 Jul 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, WR/724
Date unknown:	Involvement Petty Officer, WR/724, HMAS Cerberus (Shore)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Marjorie was the fifth of eight children of William Elkington Butler (born 1864 in Cogh, Victoria) and Ellen Annie White (born 1887 in Melton, Melbourne, Victoria). William was a Farmer at Korumbuura in Gippsland, Victoria when he married Ellen in Melbourne, Victoria in 1903. They settled at Korumburra and raised their family there.

Marjorie was a Nurse at the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases (QMID) Hospital and was working at Summerleigh Lodge at Healesville when she enlisted in the WRAN in February 1942. Marjorie was a Petty Officer SBA (Service No:WR/724) on the HMAS Lonsdale and HMAS Cerberus and was Discharged in June 1946. Brothers John Elkington (Service No:VX7496); Raymond (Service No:VX11929); Norman Spencer (Service No:V389080) and Francis Harold (Service No:V389439) also served in WWII.

Marjorie moved to Cairns, QLD where she was working as a Doctor's Receptionist in 1950 when she married James Frederick McCafferty Jnr (born 1915 in Cairns, QLD). James, a Clerk, served in WWII as a Private (Service Nos:QX53349/Q116540) and his sister Kathleen Eugenie served with the Army Women's Medical Service (Service Nos:QFX52053/Q271013).

Marjorie and James settled in Cairns, where James worked as a Tally Clerk. Marjorie died in 1982 and James in 1986.

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