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musterings. With the cessation of hostilities in Europe recruiting numbers dropped further and in August 1945 when peace was declared with Japan, all recruiting activities ceased. The Centre was disbanded in October 1945.  
 
musterings. With the cessation of hostilities in Europe recruiting numbers dropped further and in August 1945 when peace was declared with Japan, all recruiting activities ceased. The Centre was disbanded in October 1945.  
  
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===Unit Personnel===
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===Enlistees===
  
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===Passing Through===
 
 
All personnel who enlisted in the Perth Metro area, or had travelled to Perth to do so were documented by this unit before despatch to training units.
 
All personnel who enlisted in the Perth Metro area, or had travelled to Perth to do so were documented by this unit before despatch to training units.
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* [[Raymond Edward Morton Butcher]] 3 Mar 1941
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====1940====
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* [[Reginald William Jordan]] 4 Mar 1940
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* [[Nicholas Keating]] 18 Mar 1940
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* [[Lawrence Gerald McDonough]] 20 Mar 1940
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* [[William John Martin (16379)]] 30 Apr 1940
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* [[Warwick Geoff Samuel Savage]] 7 Jun 1940
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* [[Albert Ernest Jolly]] 24 Sep 1940
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* [[Roy Thomas Aston Wallis]] 7 Oct 1940
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* [[Allan George Cucel]] 22 Oct 1940
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* [[John Arthur Wainwright]] 22 Oct 1940
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* [[Francis Victor Coyle]] 28 Nov 1940
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====1941====
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* [[Angus Lenard Hurley]] 28 Jan 1941
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* [[Raymond Edward Norton Butcher]] 3 Mar 1941
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* † [[Greer Winton Ottaway]] 19 Mar 1941
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* † [[Michael Courthope Haynes]] 28 Apr 1941
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* [[Alan Wesley Hain]] 28 Apr 1941
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* [[Michael Courthope Haynes]] 28 Apr 1941
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* [[Leslie John (Jock) Powell DFC]] 28 Apr 1941
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* [[John Thomas Thomson]] 8 May 1941
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* [[Alfred Ensor Hand]] 10 Jul 1941
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* [[Gordon Kevin Johnson]] 12 Aug 1941
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* [[Harold Gordon Unwin]] 27 Aug 1941
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* [[Alexander Cumming]] 8 Oct 1941
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* [[Cyril Charles Cross]] 9 Oct 1941
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* [[Ronald Victor Marshall]] 30 Oct 1941
 
* [[Frederick Walter Miller]] 30 Oct 1941
 
* [[Frederick Walter Miller]] 30 Oct 1941
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* † [[Arthur Matthew Aitken]] 30 Nov 1941
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* [[Helen (Nell) Hart]] 30 Nov 1941
 
* [[Arthur George Berry]] 10 Dec 1941 - 11 Jan 1942
 
* [[Arthur George Berry]] 10 Dec 1941 - 11 Jan 1942
 
* [[Frederick Mervyn Cross]] 17 Dec 1941
 
* [[Frederick Mervyn Cross]] 17 Dec 1941
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====1942====
 
* [[Eric William Mills]] 13 Jan 1942
 
* [[Eric William Mills]] 13 Jan 1942
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* † [[Maxwell Wellman Marsh]] 1 Feb 1942
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* [[Alfred Arthur Shepherd]] 1 Feb 1942
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* [[Marguerite Isabella (Peg) Stevens]] 18 Feb 1942
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* [[Edith Lillian Madgwick]] 18 Mar 1942
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* [[Lillian Hope Turner]] 21 Apr 1942
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* [[Phillip Herbert Martin DFC & Bar]]  26 Apr 1942
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* [[Gordon Boyle]] 28 Apr 1942
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* [[Evelyn Yates]] 8 May 1942
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* [[Mavis Irene Fuller]] 22 May 1942
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* [[Patricia Duke]] 30 May 1942
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* [[Frederick Matthew Howlett]] 1 Jun 1942
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* [[Edgar John Gale]] 3 Jun 1942
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* [[Alwyn Raymond Liddell]] 16 Jun 1942
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* [[Ernest John Allen]] 16 Jun 1942
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* [[Millie Elizabeth Treloar]] 19 Jun 1942
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* [[Dorothy Betsy Thorne]] 30 Jun 1942
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* [[Douglas Walter Buckingham]] 3 Jul 1942
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* [[Stanley Reginald Nail]] 6 Jul 1942
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* [[Harold Morgan]] 8 Jul 1942
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* † [[Ernest Ronald William Oliver]] 19 Jul 1942
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* [[Colin Lindsay Ottaway DFC]] 19 Jul 1942
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* [[William Hooton]] 1 Aug 1942
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* [[Emlyn George Howell]] 8 Aug 1942
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* [[William Kenneth Watson]] 26 Sep 1942
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* [[Albert Walmsley]] 2 Oct 1942
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* [[Stewart Chandler Mack]] 9 Oct 1942
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* [[William Albert Beattie]] 11 Oct 1942
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* [[Stanley Neil Butcher]] 13 Oct 1942
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* [[Clarence Albert Curtis]] 30 Oct 1942
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* [[Maurice Raymond Lawson]] 6 Nov 1942
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====1943====
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* [[Beryl Marian Francis]] 4 Jan 1943
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* [[Gerald Kingsley Denny]] 8 Jan 1943
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* [[Bernard Francis McGarry]] 16 Jan 1943
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* [[Alfred William Walker]] 5 Feb 1943
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* [[Margaret (Peg) Hart]] 4 May 1943
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* [[Ernest Gordon Martin]] 22 May 1943
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* [[John Chadwick Meachem]] 19 Jun 1943
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* [[Dora Terry]] 19 Jul 1943
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* [[Lloyd Parker Knuckey]] 20 Jul 1943
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* [[James Winning Cunningham]] 31 Aug 1943
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* [[Henry Frederick Wills]] 10 Sep 1943
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* [[Helen Catherine Henderson]] 15 Sep 1943
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* [[George Laverick Gordin]] 18 Sep 1943
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* [[Edward Neil Parker]] 9 Oct 1943
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* [[Robert Edward Gray]] 2 Nov 1943
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* [[Leslie Douglas Waller]] 20 Nov 1943
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====1944====
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* [[Eric Green Traill-Nash]] 5 - 14 Jan 1944
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* [[Edward John Williams]] 29 Jan 1944
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* [[Sydney Roy Smith]] 12 Feb 1944
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* [[Frederick George Thornton]] 18 Mar 1944
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* [[Dorothy Mavis Bettenay]] 20 Mar 1944
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* [[John Justin McCarthy]] 5 Apr 1944
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* [[Ronald Keith Allen]] 13 May 1944
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* [[Neil Frederick Dowell]] 3 Jun 1944
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* [[Denzil Dale Fletcher]] 7 Jun 1944
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* [[Bernice Lydia Hand]] 26 Jul 1944
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* [[Mona Curtis]] 16 Aug 1944
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* [[Mervyn James Pound]] 18 Aug 1944
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* [[Stewart Leslie White]] 8 Sep 1944
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* [[Philip Stanley Buckingham]] 29 Sep 1944
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* [[Patricia Frances French]] 20 Dec 1944
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* [[Joseph Charles Colton]] 22 Dec 1944
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====1945====
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* [[Trevor Pavy]] 27 Apr 1945
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====Notes====
 
====Notes====
 
Content has come from ''Units of the Royal Australian Air Force - A Concise History - Volume 9 Ancillary Units'' - Australian Government Publishing Service - 1995
 
Content has come from ''Units of the Royal Australian Air Force - A Concise History - Volume 9 Ancillary Units'' - Australian Government Publishing Service - 1995

Latest revision as of 01:56, 3 June 2024

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Brief History

The No. 4 Recruiting Centre was established on 24 September 1939 at the Perth Technical College but later moved to Yorkshire House in St George's Terrace. Its establishment provided for 34 personnel including six off1cers and five medical staff. From March until November 1940, Mobile Recruiting Unit 4A commenced operations in Kalgoorlie, operating from a train. After November recruitment from the goldfields was handled by staff visiting from Perth as for other regional areas of the state. In February 1941 the Centre moved to ANA House in St George's Terrace, Perth.


On 3 March 194J recruiting for the WAAAF was introduced for the non-technical musterings. By September 1942 there was a great falling off of applications for the RAAF and WAAAF owing to manpower regulations. In October 1942 lectures began for all personnel of the Centre on ship and aircraft recognition. Physical fitness and unarmed defence courses were run for the WAAAF. In January 1943 the first two members of the WAAAF in Western Australia were promoted to sergeant. A recruiting drive was conducted for the WRAAF in the same month. Appeals were made at interval time at the movies and radio broadcasts went through till February. Personnel from the Centre made regular visits to 9 Elementary Flying School to find out about the work performed by various musterings. By February !945 it was increasingly difficult to find suitable applicants for the aircrew musterings. With the cessation of hostilities in Europe recruiting numbers dropped further and in August 1945 when peace was declared with Japan, all recruiting activities ceased. The Centre was disbanded in October 1945.

Enlistees

All personnel who enlisted in the Perth Metro area, or had travelled to Perth to do so were documented by this unit before despatch to training units.

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Notes

Content has come from Units of the Royal Australian Air Force - A Concise History - Volume 9 Ancillary Units - Australian Government Publishing Service - 1995


External Links

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