Western Command Recruit Reception & General Details Depot

Unit's colour patch

Brief History

In March 1940 W Comd Gen Details Camp was raised at Melville to look after stragglers and those left behind by the convoys passing through Fremantle for the Middle East. In April it moved to Northam and then in June to the Fremantle Artillery Barracks. In September they moved to Claremont and their role was widened to handle all troops passing through Perth.

In January 1941 a Discharge & Reception Depot was formed within the unit to process soldiers returning from the Middle East for discharge. In November they also took on those attending the Western Command Cooking School and apprentices undergoing trade training. In May 1942 the unit was renamed WA L of C Area GDD and they shared a HQ with the neighbouring WA L of C Area RRD until August 1943. In November 1942 a separate WA L of C LTD was formed to handle troops passing through Perth on leave. The number of troops in Western Australia had reduced substantially by May 1944 and the GDD amalgamated with the RDD to form Western Australian L of C Area RR & GDD at Claremont.

In October 1944 the unit became Western Command Recruit Reception & General Details Depot before moving to Karrakatta in December where it remained until the war's conclusion. In September 1945 it formed Western Command Discharge Depot to facilitate demobilisation.

Unit Personnel

• Herbert Harold White 21 Oct 1940 - 1 Mar 1943
• Sidney Alfred Born 1 Nov 1940 - 4 Aug 1941
• John (Jack) Balshaw 21 Jul 1941 - 18 Sep 1947
• Joseph Craven 23 Apr 1942 - 6 Feb 1946
• Harold Clare Brown MSM 29 Sep 1942 - 12 Dec 1944
• Alice (May) Cardinal 19 Oct 1942 - 23 Jun 1943
• Harold Higham 2 Dec 1943 - 5 Oct 1944
• George Victor Parkin 1 Nov - 4 Deac 1945
• Stanley Charles Gregory 5 Nov 1945 - 29 Sep 1946
• Denys Brettell Duke 3 Nov 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
• George Victor Parkin 27 May 1946 - 31 Jan 1947
• Walter James Holmes 30 May 1946 - 26 Mar 1947
• John (Jack) Balshaw 28 Jan - 11 Sep 1947
• John Henry Clark

General Details Depot

Personnel between postings.

1940

• Sidney Alfred Born 1 Nov 1940 - 3 Aug 1941

1941

• Donald Norrish MacDonald 14 May - 15 Jul 1941
• Walter Thomas Tremlett 15 - 17 Oct 1941
• Wilfred Brettell Duke 20- 28 Oct 1941

1942

• Vernon Agustus Longman 23 - 30 Mar 1942
• Ernest Arnold (Arnold) Barnes 22 Apr - 21 Jun 1942
• Walter James Holmes 15 Jul - 6 Sep 1944
• Charles Henry Walter Hansen 5 Aug 1942 - 8 Feb 1943
• Sidney Ernest Berry 24 Sep - 28 Oct 1942
• Frederick Phillipson 10 Oct - 2 Dec 1942
• William Robert Hayward 13 - 19 Nov 1942
• George Henry Millett 30 Nov - 1 Dec 1942
• Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall 1 - 9 Dec 1942
• Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis 23 Dec 1942 - 6 Jan 1943
• Arthur Henry Crouch 26 Dec 1942 - 1 Jan 1943

1943

• Arthur Samuel William Alldridge 22 Jan - 3 Feb 1943
• John Patrick Whitaker 2 - 20 Feb 1943 & 6 Apr - 3 May 1943
• George Charles Owens 19 Feb - 11 Jul 1943
• Oliver Donald George Bruce 25 Mar - 23 Apr 1943
• Edwin Reed Marshall 9 - 29 May 1943
• James Douglas Aitken 24 May - 30 Oct 1943
• Antonio Del Borrello 27 Sep - 4 Oct 1943
• Richard Phillipson 3 Jun - 17 Jun 1943
• John William Watson 30 Jun - 14 Jul 1943 & 6 May - 5 Jun 1944
• Norman Stanley Cosh 7 Jul- 28 Jul 1943
• Edward John Murphy 29 Jul - 20 Sep 1943
• Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis 9 Aug - 14 Dec 1943
• [[* William Frederick Reid 10 Aug - 27 Nov 1942]] 17 Aug - 3 Aep 1943
• Norman Henry Napier Fowler 15 - 21 Nov 1943
• Leonard Wilfred Powell 12 Nov 1943 - 14 Jan 1944
• William Ritchie Napier 30 Dec 1943 - 3 Jan 1944

1944

• John Davidson 6 - 13 Jan 1944
• Reginald James Bollard 15 Mar - 5 Jun 1944
• James Henry Clarke 28 Mar - 5 May 1944
• Donald Roberts Scott 1 May 1944
• John Patrick Whitaker 10 Jun - 13 Sep 1944
• George Gould Elworthy 31 Jul 1944 - 3 Nov 1944
• Hubert Laurence Batt 8 Oct - 20 Nov 1944
• Thomas John Geary 11 - 22 Oct 1944
• Charles Armstrong Hanbury 21 Nov 1944 - 5 Jan 1945
• Valda Joy Newton 31 Nov 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
• Keith Raymond Mills 21 Dec 1944 - 6 Jan 1945
• Shirley Craddon 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
• Clarice Linda Savage 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945

1945

• James David Watts 7 Jan - 3 Mar 1945
• Luke Pense 11 Jan - 16 Mar 1945
• Alfred Hansford Fuller 22 Jan - 4 Mar 1945
• Jack Raymond Fuller 24 Jan - 5 Mar 1945
• Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall 12 Feb - 2 May 1945 LWOP period
• William Frederick Hanbury 28 Feb - 23 Mar 1945
• William James (Jim) Harrison 9 - 12 Mar 1945
• Oliver Benson Sharpe 15 - 29 Apr 1945
• Eima (Marie) Sturrock 12 - 16 Jun 1946
• Cecil Sydney Fahey 31 Aug - 23 Oct 1945
• Allan James Watters 6 Sep - 29 Oct 1945
• Leslie Charles Peters 29 Sep - ?? Nov 1945
• James Henry Clarke 8 - 13 Oct 1945
• Ernest Stanley Lawrence 18 Oct 1945 - 25 Mar 1946

1946

• Allan Hugh Aitken 1 - 15 Jan 1946
• Allan Butcher 5 Jan - 2 Feb 1946
• Frederick Haughton Dawson 22 Jan - 14 Feb 1946
• Douglas Joseph (Doug) Mills 5 Feb - 6 Mar 1946
• David Gordon 11 - 17 Feb 1946
• Ivan Farac 12 Feb 1946 - ??
• Arthur Donald Free 4 May - 17 Jun 1946
• William Ritchie Napier 7 - 14 Jun 1946

Returnees Depot

Personnel returning from the Middle East or New Guinea needing a new posting - not yet for discharge.

• Walter Cyril Tomlinson 10 Dec 1941 - 20 Apr 1942
• Edward Henderson Craghill 9 Jun 1942 - 8 Oct 1942
• William John Eric Johnson 23 Oct - 16 Nov 1942
• Edgar Paul Siebner 25 Mar - 7 Apr 1943
• Graeme Patrick Benson 1 - 6 Apr 1943
• Harold Frank Davy 20 Dec 1943 - 6 Jan 1944
• Joseph George Lewis Jalli 17 Jul - 16 Aug 1945
• Mervyn (Merv) James Rose 24 Aug - 4 Oct 1945
• Keith Raymond Mills 28 Sep 1945 - 28 Mar 1946
• Albert George Lawrence 18 Oct 1945 - 25 Mar 1946
• Marvin Redvers Cuthbert Barge 28 Jan - 13 Mar 1946

Medical Wing

• Frederick John Anson 6 - 10 Oct 1941
• David Stevenson 4 - 9 Dec 1941
• William Boyd Griffiths 12 Oct 1942 - 22 Apr 1943
• John James (Jack) Trappitt 11 Jan - 23 Mar 1943 & 7 - 20 Jan 1944
• Herbert Andrew Thomas Alexander 19 Jan - 19 Apr 1943
• Arthur Samuel William Alldridge 22 Jan - 4 Mar 1943
• Eric William Wheatley 11 - 30 May 1943 & 10 Jun - 1 Jul 1943
• Antonio Del Borrello 7 - 9 Jul 1943
• Robert Hynes 26 Oct - 16 Nov 1943
• William Francis James Elliott 16 - 19 Nov 1943
• Steven Ralph Cox 3 Dec 1943 - 17 Jan 1944
• Joseph Logan 16 Aug 1944 - 10 Dec 1946

1941

• Walter Thomas Tremlett 15 - 17 Oct 1941

1942

• William Thomas Wills 12 Feb 1942
• David Stevenson 10 Apr 1942
• Harold James Paulsen 26 Aug 1942
• William George Ward 1 Sep 1942 - 7 Jan 1943
• Charles John Sanford ?? - 5 Oct 1942
• Edward Henderson Craghill 8 Oct - 5 Dec 1942
• Benjamin Stanley North 22 Oct - 4 Nov 1942
• William John Eric Johnson 17 Nov - 17 Dec 1942

1943

• Thomas Egan 31 Mar - 12 Apr 1943
• William Robert Hayward 12 May 1943
• Graeme Patrick Benson 15 May - 10 Jun 1943
• William Boyd Griffiths 22 Apr - 27 May 1943
• Richard Phillipson 18 Jun - 17 Jul 1943
• Alan Clifton Navin Butcher 20 Jun - 21 Nov 1943
• Eric William Wheatley 1 Jul - 8 Aug 1943
• Raby Kathleen Elizabeth Mack 27 Oct 1943
• Edgar Paul Siebner 27 Sep - 23 Nov 1943
• Spencer Gwynne DCM MID 12 Oct - 10 Nov 1943
• Francis Malarkey 30 Oct - 19 Dec 1943
• Richard Noel Craigie 22 Nov - 9 Dec 1943
• Ernest Arnold (Arnold) Barnes 24 Dec 1943 - 26 Jan 1944

1944

• Albert Dawson Winstanley 5 Jan 1944
• Maxwell John Watson 6 Jan - 6 Mar 1944
• William Francis James Elliott 10 Jan - 13 Mar 1944
• Evan John David Davies 19 - 20 Jan 1944
• James Gordon (Jock) Wheeler 25 Jan 1944
• Leslie George Harden 28 Jan - 1 Feb 1944
• Albert Edward New 16 Feb - 31 May 1944
• Miran Radovanovic 21 - 22 Feb 1944
• Arthur Henry Crouch 8 Mar 1944
• George Charles Owens ?? - 10 Mar 1944
• Thomas McFarlane Cunningham 15 - 16 Mar 1944
• Roy Cincinatus Anderson 27 Mar - 17 Apr 1944
• Keith James Buckingham 28 Mar - 14 Apr 1944
• Frederick Phillipson 12 - 13 Apr 1944
• George Henry Harden 13 Apr - 2 May 1944
• Norman Stanley Cosh 14 - 18 Apr 1944
• David Gordon 14 Apr - 2 May 1944
• Lancelot (Lance) William Cornell 21 - 28 Apr 1944
• Leonard Wilfred Powell 29 Apr - 19 May 1944
• John Raymond Little 24 Jun - 18 Jul 1944
• Stanley George Jarick 29 - 30 Jun 1944
• Joyce Sinclair 18 - 22 Jul 1944
• John Patrick Whitaker 22 Jul - 10 Aug 1944
• John Rowland Griffiths 26 Jul - 10 Aug 1944
• Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis 24 Aug - 8 Oct 1944
• Herbert Harold White 18 Sep - 22 Oct 1944
• John Peter Lewis Rymer 21 Sep- 10 Oct 1944
• Edward Ernest Wilson 22 Sep - 12 Oct 1944
• Maurice Raven 25 - 26 Sep 1944
• William John Lucas 2 - 4 Oct 1944
• Hamilton John Crook 16 - 18 Oct 1944
• John James (Jack) Trappitt 16 - 27 Oct 1944
• Stanley Garrett 27 - 30 Oct 1944
• Ernest Woolhead 30 Oct - 1 Nov 1944
• Harold Jack Spencer 7 Nov - 4 Dec 1944
• William Thomas Wills 12 - 14 Nov 1944
• John James Ainsworth 20 Nov 1944
• Cyril Arthur Holmes 20 Nov - 8 Dec 1944
• Harry Alfred Curtis 29 Nov - 8 Dec 1944
• Hubert Laurence Batt 22 - 27 Dec 1944

1945

• Francis Tullan Kendall Dodds 7 Jan - 5 Feb 1945
• Kenneth Graham Hicks 16 - 28 Jan 1945
• Paul Lilleyman 29 Jan - 1 Feb 1945
• William James (Jim) Harrison 9 - 12 Mar 1945
• Stanley Upton Hammond 18 Mar - 12 Apr 1945
• Albert Henry Dyson 25 Apr - 21 May 1945
• Maurice Weinbren 30 Apr - 8 May 1945
• Stefano Alberti 16 - 30 May 1945
• Vivienne Dittman 5 - 7 Jun 1945
• Thomas John Walsh 22 Jun - 6 Jul 1945
• John Milton Hand 5 Jul - 30 Aug 1945
• Stanton Edward McKenna 17 Jul - 30 Sep 1945
• Joseph Maria White 23 Jul - 8 Aug 1945
• Maxwell John Buckingham 7 Aug - 3 Dec 1945
• Charles Amos George Victor Petersen 10 Aug - 20 Sep 1945
• Ronald Gwynne 14 Aug - 12 Oct 1945
• Steven Ralph Cox 14 Aug - 31 Oct 1945
• Alfred John Davies 15 Aug - 4 Sep 1945
• Frederick Joseph Powell ?? Aug - 14 Nov 1945
• John Alfred Vernon Hanbury 31 Aug - 6 Oct 1945
• Joseph George Lewis Jalli 31 Aug - 1 Sep 1945
• Bortolomeo (Bortolo) Flematti 5 - 27 Sep 1945
• Allan Edmund Young 5 Sep - 4 Oct 1945
• Douglas George Edgar Alexander 7 Sep - 15 Oct 1945
• Herbert Andrew Thomas Alexander 7 Sep - 15 Oct 1945
• Alfred Edward James Tresidder 10 Sep - 21 Nov 1945
• Leon Ernest Aubrey 13 Sep - 8 Nov 1945
• John Coffey 16 Sep 1945 - 30 Jan 1946
• Thomas Timothy Roberts 17 Sep - 13 Oct 1945
• Roy Searle Williams 18 Sep - 23 Oct 1945
• Douglas Victor Wilkinson 18 Sep - 22 Oct 1945
• Edmond Hepple Brown MID 19 - 28 Sep 1945
• Richard Barrett 24 - 28 September 1945
• John William Alexander 28 Sep - 3 Nov 1945
• Hubert James (Jim) Gale 8 - 12 Oct 1945
• Alexander James Harris 9 Oct - 12 Nov 1945
• Oliver Donald George Bruce 9 - 31 Oct 1945
• Roy Alva Stirling 11 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
• Leo Gibbs 13 Oct - 15 Nov 1945
• Frank Croudson 16 - 24 Oct 1945
• Harold George Bell 16 - 29 Oct 1945
• Charles William (Tiny) Gray 17 Oct 19435 - 7 Jan 1946
• William Leslie Roberts 17 Oct - 12 Nov 1945
• Edward Arthur Sewell 17 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
• Harry Cecil Brown 17 - 19 Oct 1945
• Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall ?? Oct - 25 Oct 1945
• John Francis (Jack) Cucel 19 - 22 Oct 1945
• Reginald James Bollard 19 - 25 Oct 1945
• Cyril Newton 19 Oct - 8 Nov 1945
• John Thomas Madgwick 20 - 23 Oct 1945
• Allan Denman Baldwin 20 - 24 Oct 1945
• Thomas Geoffrey Eliot 21 Oct - 10 Dec 1945
• James David Watts 21 Oct - 6 Nov 1945
• George Victor Parkin 1 Nov - 5 Dec 1945 & 1 - 10 Feb 1947
• Thomas John Geary 22 - 24 Oct 1945
• Robert Henry Fletcher 26 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
• Joseph George Nicholls 30 Oct - 5 Dec 1945
• Peter Spence 2 - 8 Nov 1945
• Alfred James Gregory 2 - 27 Nov 1945
• Eric William Taylor 3 Nov 1945 - 29 Jan 1946
• Arthur Samuel William Alldridge 4 Nov - 10 Dec 1945
• Robert Hynes 5 - 14 Nov 1945
• John Stephen Serventy 5 Nov 1945 - 3 Jan 1946
• Cyril John Dunnell 7 - 15 Nov 1945
• George Gould Elworthy 7 - 14 Nov 1945
• John Ernest Law-Davis 9 - 16 Nov 1945
• John William Watson 9 - 16 Nov 1945
• Victor Emanuel Valli ?? Nov 1945 - 1 Apr 1946
• Joan Lucien Collins 12 - 23 Nov 1945
• John Orbel Whitefield Parkin 12 - 23 Nov 1945
• Sydney Eric Mills 12 Nov 1945 - 22 Jan 1946
• Frederick Martin Wilton 13 - 23 Nov 1945
• Edwin Reed Marshall 14 - 28 Nov 1945
• Albert Chamberlain 18 - 26 Nov 1945
• Charles Armstrong Hanbury 23 - 29 Nov 1945
• Francis (George) Hicks MM 24 Nov 1945 - 18 Jun 1946
• Albert George Joseph Jackson 27 Nov - 7 Dec 1945
• Ronald Arthur Grafham 27 Nov - 7 Dec 1945
• Edward Charles (Ted) Fancote 30 Nov 1945 - 3 Jan 1946 & 18 Jan 1946
• Percy Whittaker 3 - 5 Dec 1945
• Donald Norrish MacDonald 4 Dec 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
• Wilfred Brettell Duke 6 - 20 Dec 1945
• Edward John Murphy 7 Dec 1945
• William Leslie Cucel 7 - 14 Dec 1945
• Arthur Gordon Hubbard 8 Dec 1945- 13 Jan 1946
• Vesey Fitzgerald 10 Dec 1945 - 16 Jan 1946
• James Robert McCormack 12 - 13 Dec 1945
• Angus Sherwood James 16 Dec 1945 - 18 Jan 1946
• Donald George Martin 17 - 24 Dec 1945
• Raymond Victor Clough 18 - 21 Dec 1945
• Frank Lindsay Cornish 19 Dec 1945 - 16 Jan 1946
• Robert William Murphy 20 Dec 1945 - 8 Jan 1946
• John Bennett Prentice 20 Dec 1945 - 10 Jan 1946
• Mervyn Eric Doherty 24 Dec 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
• Antonio Del Borrello 27 Dec 1945 - 21 Mar 1946
• George Sydney Devereaux 29 Dec 1945 - 29 Jan 1946
• William Albert Nicholls 29 Dec 1945 - 25 Jan 1946
• Harold Philip Orton 29 Dec 1945 - 21 Feb 1946
• Raymond Henry Butcher 30 Dec 1945 - 20 Feb 1946 discharged in NSW)
• Harold Chamberlain 30 Dec 1944 - 7 Jan 1946

1946

• Alan Henry Brockwell 2 - 22 Jan 1946
• William Rice Gregory 4 - 7 Jan 1946
• Alexander William Turner MID 8 - 10 Jan 1946
• Ernest Emanuel Mills 12 Jan - 25 Feb 1946
• Charles Kenneth Neilson 14 Jan 1946 -14 Feb 1946 & 5 Mar 1946 - 31 Jan 1947??
• William Francis Buck 17 Jan - 6 Feb 1946
• Harold Baldwin 17 Jan - 2 May 1946
• Jack Cartwright 22 Jan - 13 Mar 1946
• Frederick Charles Lawrence 27 Jan - 15 Mar 1946
• Arthur Gordon Fielder 28 Jan - 11 Mar 1946
• Edward Maurice Trew 2 Feb - 23 Apr 1946
• Frederick Thomas Orton Miller 2 - 20 Feb 1946
• Alan Kirwan Donaldson 11 - 21 Feb 1946
• Jack David Bunney 13 Feb - 7 Mar 1946
• Arthur McVeigh 9 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
• Daisy Ella Logan 11 - 27 Mar 1946
• Robert Neil Anderson 12 - 15 Mar 1946
• Edward James (Jim) Lawrence 17 Mar - 27 Jun 1946
• Cecil Sydney Fahey 18 Mar - 1 Apr 1946
• Albert George Lawrence 26 - 28 Mar 1946
• Ernest Stanley Lawrence 26 - 28 Mar 1946
• Keith Raymond Mills 29 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
• Clarice Linda Savage 30 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
• Denys Brettell Duke 9 Apr 1946
• Samuel Battle Hammond 9 Apr - 26 May 1946
• John Milenko Marian 16 - 23 Apr 1946
• Mary Evelyn Grace Hynes 9 - 10 May 1946
• James Wilkinson 13 - 27 May 1946
• Shirley Craddon 28 May - 26 Jun 1946
• Alan Gordon Buckingham 15 Jun - 2 Aug 1946
• Leslie Charles Peters 18 Jun - 5 Jul 1946
• Curnow Andrew Knuckey 19 - 21 Jun 1946
• Robert Thomas Buckenara 21 Jun - 8 Jul 1946
• Douglas Joseph (Doug) Mills 21 - 25 Jun 1946
• Viola Shirley Franklin 21 Jun - 1 Jul 1946
• Frederick Haughton Dawson 22 - 29 Jul 1945
• Edith Marion Rymer 22 - 29 Jul 1946
• Luke Pense 29 Jul - 2 Aug 1946
• Marvin Redvers Cuthbert Barge 24 - 26 Jul 1946
• Valda Joy Newton 3 - 8 Aug 1946
• Allan Hugh Aitken 12 - 15 Aug 1946
• Alfred Hansford Fuller 14 - 21 Aug 1946
• Wanda Dawne Sullivan 17 - 23 Aug 1946
• Roy Kershaw 16 Sep - 10 Oct 1946
• William Albert Arthur Parkin 17 - 23 Oct 1946
• Winifred Frances Thompson 13 - 16 Nov 1946
• Joseph Logan 11 Dec 1946 - 9 Jan 1947
• Stanley Charles Gregory 23 Dec 1946 - 16 Jan 1947

1947

• Jack Raymond Fuller 6 - 9 Jan 1947
• John Hartley Craddon 6 - 13 Jan 1947
• Norman Henry Napier Fowler 20 - 23 Jan 1947
• Henry George Price 24 Jan - 5 Feb 1947]]
• John Whittaker ww2 21 Feb - 16 Mar 1947
• Bernard (Jim) Johnson 13 Feb - 6 Mar 1947
• Mervyn (Merv) James Rose 21 Feb - 16 Mar 1947
• Henry Victor (Harry) Fowler 7 - 12 Mar 1947
• Edward James (Jim) Lawrence 17 Mar - 27 Jun 1947
• Walter James Holmes 26 Mar - 3 Apr 1947
• John (Jack) Balshaw 12 - 18 Sep 1947
• Brian Albert Rose 30 Nov - 8 Dec 1947

1949

• David Gordon 19 Feb - 4 Mar 1949

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 6 - The Australian Army 1939-1945, page 6.414 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018