MASSEY, Joseph John
| Service Number: | PM6099 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 April 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 March 1925 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk (Union Bank of Australia) |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 August 1949, aged 24 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Apr 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PM6099 | |
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| 23 Aug 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PM6099 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Able Seaman Joseph John Massey (Service No:PM6099) served in the RAN from 6 April 1943 to 23 August 1946 and was attached to HMAS Lonsdale at Discharge.
Born in 1925 in Melbourne Victoria, Joseph Jnr was the youngest of two children of Joseph John Massey (b1888 in Corowa, NSW) and his second wife Amy Janet Walsh (b1895 in Violet Town, Victoria). Joseph Snr worked in Corowa and Junee NSW as a Farm Labourer, and was in Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916. Following his Discharge, Joseph Snr was hospitalised in Melbourne, then worked in QLD as a Cane Cutter, and was a Municial Gardener in Melbourne in 1921 when he and Amy married - Amy was a Nurse. Joseph Snr and Amy settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Joseph worked as a Municipal Gardener.
Joseph, a Bank Clerk with the Union Bank of Australia, returned to Melbourne and work as a Bank Clerk following his Discharge in 1946. Joseph died in 1949.
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