No. 5 Personnel Depot RAAF

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Brief History

This Depot was formerly No. 5 Embarkation Depot located in Salvado Road, Subiaco. The Depot name changed in April 1944. At the end of September 1946, sections of the Depot were established at Pearce, ANA House in the Perth CBD, and Karrakatta, to carry out discharge and recruiting duties. No. 5 Personnel Depot ceased to function as a unit on 25 Sep 1946 and commenced disbandment.

Unit Personnel

• Beatrice Mary Coulson
• Dorothy Betsy Thorne
• Lillian Hope Turner

Passing through

• John Francis George Collins 20 Dec 1943 - 27 Jan 1944
• Alfred Ensor Hand 18 Sep - 29 Oct 1944
• Francis Neal McGurk 21 Sep - ? Oct 1945

Discharges

• William John Gardener 1 Mar - 16 Mar 1945
• Reginald Thomas Blackman 14 - 17 Jun 1945
• Avon William Mills 4 Sep - 19 Oct 1945
• Clifford Stanley Douglas 9 Sep - 26 Nov 1945
• Edward Trayton Elvish 16 Oct - 17 Dec 1945
• Oswald Francis Williams 18 Oct 1945 - 27 Feb 1946
• James Winning Cunningham 22 - 24 Oct 1945
• Harry Beard 22 Oct - 19 Nov 1945
• George Henry Millett 29 Oct 1945 - 4 Feb 1946
• Roy Joseph Smith 6 Nov 1945 - 6 Feb 1946
• Laurence Harold Smith 26 Nov - 4 Dec 1945
• Maxwell Kenneth Ottaway 28 Nov - 24 Dec 1945
• Robert Alexander MacLean ?? - 3 Dec 1945
• Joseph Watson (RAAF) 5 - 13 Dec 1945
• Gerard Henzell Straughan Hemy ?? - 21 Dec 1945
• Francis Neal McGurk14 Dec 1945 - 2 Jan 1946
• Edward Arthur Ross 17 Dec 1945 - 28 Feb 1946
• Cyril Charles Cross 19 Dec 1945 - 11 Jan 1946
• Frederick Matthew Howlett 14 - 29 Jan 1946
• Kevin David Anderson 8 - 21 Feb 1946
• John Francis George Collins 4 - 11 Mar 1946
• Stanley Gordon Devereux 18 - 29 Mar 1946
• Alan Godfrey Barry 10 Apr - 13 May 1946
• Alfred Ensor Hand 1 - 21 May 1946
• Alfred George Playle 21 - 28 May 1946

Notes

See also No. 5 Embarkation Depot RAAF

Content comes from Units of the Royal Australian Air Force - A Concise History - Vol 9 Ancillary Units Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995