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
• William Ramsay Martin 1 Jun - 19 Jul 1945

Trainees

1940

• 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
• Warwick Geoff Samuel Savage 25 Jun - 25 Aug 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

1941

• Oswald Francis Williams 23 Jan - 10 Mar 1941
• † Greer Winton Ottaway 20 Mar - 29 Apr 1941
• Tom Shelley Griffiths 7 Apr - 14 Apr 1941
• Vernon Wallace Marsh 5 Jun - 26 Jul 1941
• Alfred Ensor Hand 10 Jul - 8 Aug 1941
• Raymond George Bunney 7 - 25 Aug 1941
• Frederick Walter Miller 30 Oct - 23 Nov 1941
• William John (Jack) Hart MID 7 - 31 Dec 1941
• Frederick Mervyn Cross 17 Dec 1941 - 9 Jan 1942

1942

• Eric William Mills 13 Jan - 7 Feb 1942
• Keith Robert Mills 13 Jan - 7 Feb 1942
• Edward Alfred Harper 21 Jan - 24 Feb 1942
• John Newell Ellis 14 Apr - 3 May 1942
• Alwyn Raymond Liddell 16 Jun - 12 Aug 1942
• William Ramsay Martin 1 Aug - 1 Nov 1942
• Clarence Albert Curtis 31 Oct - 25 Nov 1942
• Maurice Raymond Lawson 6 -14 Nov 1942
• George Henry Millett 2 Dec 1942 - 2 Jan 1943

1943

• Gerald Kingsley Denny 9 Jan - 11 Feb 1943
• Edward Harry Tasker 15 Jan - 18 Feb 1943
• Bernard Francis McGarry 16 - 24 Jan 1943
• Joseph Butler Boyd 6 Feb - 4 Mar 1943
• Ronald Keith Allen 13 May - 9 Jun 1943
• Lloyd Parker Knuckey 24 Jul 20 Aug 1943
• Francis Thomas Briggs 4 Sep - 2 Nov 1943
• Henry Frederick Wills 11 Sep -26 Oct 1943
• James Winning Cunningham 23 Oct - 13 Dec 1943
• Robert Edward Gray 2 - 11 Nov 1943
• Leslie Douglas Waller 20 Nov 1943 - 7 Jan 1944

1944

• Edward John Williams 29 Jan - 30 Mar 1944
• Frederick George Thornton 18 Mar - 18 Apr 1944
• Neil Frederick Dowell 3 Jun - 12 Jul 1944
• Mervyn James Pound 18 Aug - 27 Sep 1944
• Philip Stanley Buckingham 6 Oct - 10 Nov 1944
• Joseph Charles Colton 29 Dec 1944 - 2 Feb 1945

1945

• Trevor Pavy 4 May - 7 Jun 1945

WAAAF Training Section

• Doreen Elsie Trainor 3 Jan - 3 Feb 1942
• Dulcie May Faulkner 30 Jan - 11 Mar 1942
• Lillian Hope Turner 21 - 25 Apr 1942

Notes

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