MOYSEY, Dorothy Madge
| Service Numbers: | WR/1235, WR/123, SN WR/123 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 May 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Writer |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 July 1923 |
| Home Town: | Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Croydon, Maroondah - Victoria, Australia, 12 August 1974, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 17 May 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Writer, WR/123, HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base) | |
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| 17 May 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, WR/1235 | |
| 1 Mar 1945: | Promoted Leading Writer, HMAS Cerberus (Shore) | |
| 23 May 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Leading Writer, SN WR/123, HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base) | |
| 23 May 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, WR/1235 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Leading Writer, WR/1235, HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Dorothy was the only child of Francis (Frank) Bickford Moysey (born 1889 at Narre Warren in Victoria) and Lily May Hill (born (1888 in Melbourne, Victoria). Frank (a Contractor at Narre Warren) and Lily (a Book Binder in Melbourne) married in 1920 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled in Melbourne where Frank worked as a Press Hand.
Dorothy was working as a Clerk in Melbourne in 1943 when she enlisted in the Women's RAN Sevices as an Assistant Writer on HMAS Lonsdale. Dorothy was a Leading Writer attached to HMAS Lonsdale when she was Discharged in May 1946.
Returning to Melbourne, Dorothy was working as a Clerk in St Kilda in 1949 when she married Pearse Joseph Reynolds (born 1924 in Melbourne, Victoria). Pearse was a Salesman, and he and Dorothy settled in Melbourne. Dorothy died in 1974 and Pearse in 2000.