KEYSER, Yvonne Warren
| Service Number: | 99685 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 May 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units |
| Born: | Wagin, Western Australia, 28 April 1923 |
| Home Town: | Mullewa, Mullewa, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 18 August 2004, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | City of West Torrens WW2 Boulevard of Honour, Mullewa District Road Board Roll of Honour WW2 |
World War 2 Service
| 22 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 99685, No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor | |
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| 22 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 99685, RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units | |
| 23 May 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 99685, 4 Personnel Depot (RAAF), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces | |
| 22 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 99685, RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units, No. 4 Personnel Depot Mitcham SA | |
| 24 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 99685, RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Yvonne Warren Keyser (Service No:99685) enlisted in the RAAF on 22 May 1942 and was attached to 4 Personnel Depot (Staff) when she was Discharged on 22 December 1945.
Born in 1923 in Wagin WA, Yvonne was the eldest of three children of Osmond Detwiler Keyser (b1899 in Albany, WA) and Amelia Euphemia Georgina Warren (b1905 at Chapman nr Geraldton, WA). Osmond (a Telegraphist with the PMGs Department in Mullewa) and Amellia married in 1922 and lived in Mullewa, Wagin, Perth and Gerladton until 1935 when Osmond started working for the WAGR in Harvey WA. The family then lived again in Mullewa before Osmond and Amelia settled at Greenmount in Mundaring WA. Osmond served in the AIF WWI and the RAAF in WWII.
Yvonne married John Charles Schmitt (b1919 in Adelaide, South Australia) and they settled in South Australia and raised their family. In 1963 Yvonne was living briefly in Perth WA where she worked as a Manageress before returning to Adelaide. John died in 1988 and before her death in 2004, Yvonne moved to Warragul, Victoria
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