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

• Reginald William Jordan 27 Apr - 25 Jun 1943 & 11 Sep 1943 - 28 Jan 1944
• John Francis George Collins 20 Dec 1943 - 27 Jan 1944
• Laurence Harold Smith 26 Jun -19 Nov 1944
• Alfred Ensor Hand 18 Sep - 29 Oct 1944
• Francis Neal McGurk 21 Sep - ? Oct 1945
• Arthur George Berry 9 Oct - 27 Dec 1945
• Eric William Mills 9 Oct - 20 Nov 1945
• Frederick Walter Miller 28 Dec 1945 - 22 Jan 1945

Discharges

• Doreen Elsie Trainor 23 May - 24 May 1944
• Edward Alfred Harper 30 Jun - 28 Oct 1944
• William John Gardener 1 Mar - 16 Mar 1945
• Edward Stanley Yates 19 & 20 Apr 1945
• Reginald Thomas Blackman 14 - 17 Jun 1945
• Frederick Mervyn Cross 21 - 22 Jun 1945
• Avon William Mills 4 Sep - 19 Oct 1945
• Frederick Walter Miller 6 Sep 1945
• Clifford Stanley Douglas 9 Sep - 26 Nov 1945
• Edward Trayton Elvish 16 Oct - 17 Dec 1945
• Reginald William Jordan 18 - 29 Oct 1945
• Oswald Francis Williams 18 Oct 1945 - 27 Feb 1946
• Nicholas Keating 19 - 29 Oct 1945
• 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
• Ronald Victor Marshall 23 - 30 Nov 1945
• Laurence Harold Smith 26 Nov - 4 Dec 1945
• Maxwell Kenneth Ottaway 28 Nov - 24 Dec 1945
• Robert Alexander MacLean ?? - 3 Dec 1945
• Vernon Wallace Marsh ?? Jan 1945 - 13 Feb 1946
• Joseph Watson (RAAF) 5 - 13 Dec 1945
• Gerard Henzell Straughan Hemy ?? - 21 Dec 1945
• Eric William Mills 12 Dec 1945 - 25 Jan 1946
• 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
• Arthur George Berry 8 - 19 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
• Dora Terry

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