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

• Lloyd Parker Knuckey 21 Aug 1943 - 19 Sep 1945
• Kenneth William McCallum 19 Sep 1943 - 3 Feb 1946
• Lloyd Ryder Hughes 7 May - 17 Dec 1944
• Joseph Charles Colton 8 Nov 1945 - 13 Nov 1945
• Beatrice Mary Coulson
• Dorothy Betsy Thorne
• Lillian Hope Turner

Passing through

1942

• Kenneth William McCallum 14 Mar - 6 Apr 1942

1943

• Gerald Kingsley Denny 8-9 Jan 1943
• Reginald William Jordan 27 Apr - 25 Jun 1943 & 11 Sep 1943 - 28 Jan 1944
• Ernest Gordon Martin 13 - 29 May 1943
• John Francis George Collins 20 Dec 1943 - 27 Jan 1944

1944

• Laurence Harold Smith 26 Jun -19 Nov 1944
• Eric Green Traill-Nash 17 Jul - 15 Sep 1944
• Joseph Butler Boyd 8 Sep - 4 Nov 1944
• Alfred Ensor Hand 18 Sep - 29 Oct 1944
• Mervyn James Pound 13 Oct 1944 - 13 Feb 1945
• Philip Stanley Buckingham 29 Sep - 6 Oct 1944
• Edgar John Gale 20 Dec 1944 - 29 Apr 1945

1945

• Edward Harry Tasker 29 Jan - 7 Mar 1945
• Bernard Francis McGarry 19 Mar - 10 May 1943
• Alfred Arthur Shepherd 2 Apr - ? May 1945
• Tom Shelley Griffiths 26 Mar - 12 Jun 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
• Harold Morgan 28 Dec 1945 - 3 Mar 1946

Discharges

1944

• Doreen Elsie Trainor 23 May - 24 May 1944
• Edward Alfred Harper 30 Jun - 28 Oct 1944
• Margaret (Peg) Hart 7 Jul - 1 Aug 1944
• William Albert Beattie 13 - 14 Jul 1944
• John Newell Ellis 23 - 24 Aug 1944

1945

• Dulcie May Faulkner 9 Nov 1944 - 25 Jan 1945
• William John Gardener 1 Mar - 16 Mar 1945
• Edward Stanley Yates 19 & 20 Apr 1945
• Patricia Duke 24 - 29 May 1945
• Reginald Thomas Blackman 14 - 17 Jun 1945
• John Chadwick Meachem 16 Jul - 19 Sep 1945
• Frederick Mervyn Cross 21 - 22 Jun 1945
• Alfred Arthur Shepherd 16 - 23 Jul 1945
• Phillip Herbert Martin DFC & Bar 1 Aug 1945 - 18 Jan 1946
• Eric Green Traill-Nash 27 - 28 Aug 1945
• Avon William Mills 4 Sep - 19 Oct 1945
• Frederick Walter Miller 5 - 6 Sep 1945
• Clifford Stanley Douglas 9 Sep - 26 Nov 1945
• Tom Shelley Griffiths 11 Sep - 8 Jun 1943 & 11 Sep - 22 Nov 1945
• Mervyn James Pound 3 Oct - 23 Dec 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
• Stanley Neil Butcher 26 Oct 1945 - 24 Jan 1946
• George Henry Millett 29 Oct 1945 - 4 Feb 1946
• Roy Joseph Smith 6 Nov 1945 - 6 Feb 1946
• Mavis Irene Fuller 23 - 29 Nov 1945
• Ronald Victor Marshall 23 - 30 Nov 1945
• Laurence Harold Smith 26 Nov - 4 Dec 1945
• Maxwell Kenneth Ottaway 28 Nov - 24 Dec 1945

1946

• Ernest Gordon Martin 29 Oct 1945 - 8 Feb 1946
• Robert Edward Gray 3 Dec 1945 - 1 Mar 1946
• Robert Alexander MacLean ?? - 3 Dec 1945
• Maurice Raymond Lawson 6 - 13 Dec 1945
• Vernon Wallace Marsh ?? Jan 1945 - 13 Feb 1946
• Bernard Francis McGarry 4 Dec 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
• Billy Kendall Collins 12 Dec 1945 - 11 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
• Edgar John Gale 24 Dec 1945 - 10 Jan 1946
• Joseph Butler Boyd 28 Dec 1945 - 20 Feb 1946
• Beryl Marian Francis 2 - 14 Jan 1946
• Frederick Matthew Howlett 14 - 29 Jan 1946
• Joyce Curtis 16 Jan - 4 Apr 1946
• Francis Thomas Briggs 16 Jan - 19 Apr 1946
• Edward Harry Tasker 18 - 21 Jan 1946
• Kenneth William McCallum 4 -7 Feb 1946
• Dorothy Mavis Bettenay 4 - 11 Feb 1946
• Raymond George Bunney 7 Feb 1946
• Kevin David Anderson 8 - 21 Feb 1946
• John Francis George Collins 4 - 11 Mar 1946
• Keith Robert Mills 4 - 12 Mar 1946
• Harold Morgan 4 -30 Mar 1946
• William John Martin (16379) 6 Mar - 27 Apr 1946
• Arthur George Berry 8 - 19 Mar 1946
• Dora Terry 15 Mar - 1 Apr 1946
• Stanley Gordon Devereux 18 - 29 Mar 1946
• Ronald Keith Allen 18 - 20 Mar 1946
• Alan Godfrey Barry 10 Apr - 13 May 1946
• Alfred Ensor Hand 1 - 21 May 1946
• Lloyd Parker Knuckey 7 - 31 May 1946
• William Ramsay Martin 2 - 21 May 1946
• Frederick George Thornton 20 - 23 May 1946
• Alfred George Playle 21 - 28 May 1946
• William Kenneth Watson 31 Jul - 12 Aug 1946
• Douglas Walter Buckingham 2 - 9 Sep 1946

1948

• Joseph Charles Colton 19 Mar - 5 Apr 1948

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