No. 4 Recruit Depot RAAF

RAAF buildings at Busselton Airfield

Brief History

On 1 Mar 1940 the No. 4 Recruit Depot was formed at Pearce in Western Australia with the function of running recruit drill or basic discipline courses. In July 1942 the uit relocated to Busselton where from 1 Jul 1943 it also had an operational base detachment to service, maintain and refuel aircraft that went on coastal patrols from there.

The last entry in the Unit History Record was made on 30 September 1945.

Unit Personnel

• Oswald Francis Williams 26 Dec 1944 - 14 Jun 1945

Trainees

Pearce

• Reginald William Jordan 4 Mar - 11 Apr 1940
• Nicholas Keating 18 Mar - 19 Apr 1940
• John Harold Garnett 18 Apr - 20 May 1940
• William John Martin (16379) 30 Apr - 4 Jun 1940
• † Edward Watling 1 Jul - 17 Aug 1940
• Maxwell Kenneth Ottaway 28 Aug - 10 Oct 1940
• † John Gordon Nicholson 11 Sep - 20 Sep 1940
• Ivan Milton Clarke 30 Sep- 23 Nov 1940
• Oswald Francis Williams 23 Jan - 10 Mar 1941
• † Greer Winton Ottaway 20 Mar - 29 Apr 1941
• Vernon Wallace Marsh 5 Jun - 26 Jul 1941
• Raymond George Bunney 7 - 25 Aug 1941
• Frederick Walter Miller 30 Oct - 23 Nov 1941
• Frederick Mervyn Cross 17 Dec 1941 - 9 Jan 1942
• Eric William Mills 13 Jan - 7 Feb 1942
• Edward Harry Tasker 15 Jan - 18 Feb 1943
• Edward Alfred Harper 21 Jan - 24 Feb 1942
• George Henry Millett 2 Dec 1942 - 2 Jan 1943
• James Winning Cunningham 23 Oct - 13 Dec 1943

Notes

Content has come from Units of the Royal Australian Air Force - A Concise History - Volume 8 Training Units - Australian Government Publishing Service - 1995