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Private Alfred Stawell Willoughby (Service No:W58343) served with the ACMF (part time) between March and July 1942. He had previously served as a Telgraphist with the Royal Australian Navy Reverves (RANR) Fremantle.

Born in 1908 in Bunbury WA, Alf was the fourth of five children of Sydney Stawell Willoughby (b1880 at Stawell in the Grampians, Victoria) and Alice Mary Gilham (b1880 at Pleasant Creek nr Stawell, Victoria). Samuel (a Repairer with the WAGR) and Alice married in 1902 in Coolgardie WA. Sam worked as a Repairer and Porter with WAGR and he and his family lived in Lilliginnie, Karalee, Brunswick Junction, Coolgardie, Hannan's Junction, Southern Cross and Donnybrook. Following Sydney's death in Bunbury in 1922, Alice and the children settled in Swanbourne, Fremantle WA.

Alf worked with the PMG as a Postal Clerk and in 1934 at Cottesloe WA married Edith (Olive) Olive Bide (b1914 in Cottesloe, Fremantle WA). By 1936 Alf and Ollie were in Kalgoorlie where Alf was a Telegraphist with the Post Office and were back in Swanbourne in the 1940s. In 1943 Alf and Ollie moved to Wiluna where Alf was a Civil Servant with the Post Office and by 1954 they were in Gnowangerup where Alf was Postmaster. Alf and Ollie then lived in Pinjarra and Mandurah where Alf was Postmaster before retiring in Mandurah in the late 1970s. Alf died in 2001 and Ollie in 2004.