John David INGLIS

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INGLIS, John David

Service Number:	46416
Enlisted:	12 February 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Greenbushes, Western Australia, Australia, 12 April 1913
Home Town:	Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Furniture Polisher
Died:	Bunbury, Western Australia, 22 August 2000, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

12 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 46416
24 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 46416
Date unknown:	Involvement Corporal, 46416, No. 24 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

John was the eldest of four children of Percy Stanley Inglis (born 1889 in Ringwood, Victoria) and Rachel Alice Anderson (born 1893 in Bunbury, WA). Percy was a Porter with the WA Railways when he married Rachel in Bunbury, WA in 1912. They lived in Greenbushes, where Percy was a Timber Worker until settling in Bunbury and establishing a French Polishing business with son John in the 1930s.

John was in business with his father as a French Polisher when he married Elizabeth Mary Spowart (born 1914 in Collie, WA) in Bunbury in 1936. In February 1942 John enlisted in the RAAF as an Aircraftman (Service No:46416). He served in Darwin, Morotai and Balikapan and was a Corporal with 24 Squadron when he was Discharged in December 1945. Brothers-in-Law Colin Owen McGlew (Private; Service No:W68851/Leading Aircraftman; Service No:84893) and Fordyce Jack Charles Campbell (Warrant Officer II; Service No:WX1942) also served in WWII.

John returned to Bunbury WA where he continued the family business as a Furniture Maker. Elizabeth died in 1995 and John in 2000.

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