Patience Margaret MOLESWORTH

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MOLESWORTH, Patience Margaret

Service Number:	NF444802
Enlisted:	3 December 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 June 1919
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	New England Girls' Grammar School, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 23 May 2002, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gore Hill Cemetery, New South Wales
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World War 2 Service

3 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF444802
14 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF444802

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Patience Margaret Molesworth (Service No:NF444802) served in the AWAS (3 December 1942 - 14 December 1945) as a Bombardier, Gunner and Plotter attached to 1 Anti Aircraft Battery and 2 Ordnance Port Detachment.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1919, Patience was youngest of three children of Dr Edmund Harold Molesworth (b1881 in Sydney, New South Wales) and Patience Mary Terry (b1888 in Sydney, New South Wales). Edmund and Patience Snr married in 1912 in Sydney, where they raised their family and Edmund was a Medical Practitioner.

Patience worked in Sydney as a Clerk after finishing school at New England Girls' Grammar, was active on the Sydney social scene in the pre WWII era, and was Hon Secretary of the AAMC Comforts Fund (NSW). Following her Discharge from the AWAS in 1945, Patience lived in England and Europe, where she worked for the BBC in London and the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) in Paris. Returning to Sydney in 1953, Patience was working as an Insurance Agent in 1961 when she married Alan Rich (b1913 in Sydney, New South Wales) - Alan was a Company Director and Insurance and Tax Agent. Patience and Alan established a partnership (Alan Rich & Coy) and worked as Insurance and Tax Agents in Sydney until 1973, when the partnership was dissolved and the couple separated. Patience continued to work in Sydney as an Insurance Agent until retirement, and died in 2002.

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