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===Unit Personnel===
 
===Unit Personnel===
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* [[Herbert Harold White]] 21 Oct 1940 - 1 Mar 1943
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* [[Sidney Alfred Born]] 1 Nov 1940 - 4 Aug 1941
 
* [[John (Jack) Balshaw]] 21 Jul 1941 - 18 Sep 1947
 
* [[John (Jack) Balshaw]] 21 Jul 1941 - 18 Sep 1947
* [[Harold Clare Brown]] 29 Sep 1942 - 12 Dec 1944
 
* [[John Henry Clark]]
 
 
* [[Joseph Craven]] 23 Apr 1942 - 6 Feb 1946
 
* [[Joseph Craven]] 23 Apr 1942 - 6 Feb 1946
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* [[Harold Clare Brown MSM]] 29 Sep 1942 - 12 Dec 1944
 
* [[Alice (May) Cardinal]] 19 Oct 1942 - 23 Jun 1943
 
* [[Alice (May) Cardinal]] 19 Oct 1942 - 23 Jun 1943
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* [[Harold Higham]] 2 Dec 1943 - 5 Oct 1944
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* [[George Victor Parkin]] 1 Nov - 4 Deac 1945
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* [[Stanley Charles Gregory]] 5 Nov 1945 - 29 Sep 1946
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* [[Denys Brettell Duke]]  3 Nov 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
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* [[George Victor Parkin]] 27 May 1946 - 31 Jan 1947
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* [[Walter James Holmes]] 30 May 1946 - 26 Mar 1947
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* [[John (Jack) Balshaw]] 28 Jan - 11 Sep 1947
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* [[John Henry Clark]]
  
 
=== General Details Depot===
 
=== General Details Depot===
* [[Frederick John Anson]] Sep - Oct 1941
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Personnel between postings.
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====1940====
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* [[Sidney Alfred Born]] 1 Nov 1940 - 3 Aug 1941
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====1941====
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* [[Donald Norrish MacDonald]] 14 May - 15 Jul 1941
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* [[Walter Thomas Tremlett]] 15 - 17 Oct 1941
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* [[Wilfred Brettell Duke]] 20- 28 Oct 1941
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====1942====
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* [[Vernon Agustus Longman]] 23 - 30 Mar 1942
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* [[Ernest Arnold (Arnold) Barnes]] 22 Apr - 21 Jun 1942
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* [[Walter James Holmes]] 15 Jul - 6 Sep 1944
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* [[Charles Henry Walter Hansen]] 5 Aug 1942 - 8 Feb 1943
 
* [[Sidney Ernest Berry]] 24 Sep - 28 Oct 1942
 
* [[Sidney Ernest Berry]] 24 Sep - 28 Oct 1942
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* [[Frederick Phillipson]] 10 Oct - 2 Dec 1942
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* [[William Robert Hayward]] 13 - 19 Nov 1942
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* [[George Henry Millett]] 30 Nov - 1 Dec 1942
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* [[Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall]] 1 - 9 Dec 1942
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 23 Dec 1942 - 6 Jan 1943
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 23 Dec 1942 - 6 Jan 1943
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* [[Arthur Henry Crouch]] 26 Dec 1942 - 1 Jan 1943
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====1943====
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* [[Arthur Samuel William Alldridge]] 22 Jan - 3 Feb 1943
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* [[John Patrick Whitaker]] 2 - 20 Feb 1943 & 6 Apr - 3 May 1943
 
* [[George Charles Owens]] 19 Feb - 11 Jul 1943
 
* [[George Charles Owens]] 19 Feb - 11 Jul 1943
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* [[Oliver Donald George Bruce]] 25 Mar - 23 Apr 1943
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* [[Edwin Reed Marshall]] 9 - 29 May 1943
 
* [[James Douglas Aitken]] 24 May - 30 Oct 1943
 
* [[James Douglas Aitken]] 24 May - 30 Oct 1943
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* [[Antonio Del Borrello]] 27 Sep - 4 Oct 1943
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* [[Richard Phillipson]] 3 Jun - 17 Jun 1943
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* [[John William Watson]] 30 Jun - 14 Jul 1943 & 6 May - 5 Jun 1944
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* [[Norman Stanley Cosh]] 7 Jul- 28 Jul 1943
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* [[Edward John Murphy]] 29 Jul - 20 Sep 1943
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 9 Aug - 14 Dec 1943
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 9 Aug - 14 Dec 1943
 
* [[Norman Henry Napier Fowler]] 15 - 21 Nov 1943
 
* [[Norman Henry Napier Fowler]] 15 - 21 Nov 1943
* [[William Ritchie Napier]] 30 Dec 1943 - 3 Jan 1944 & 7 - 14 Jun 1946
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* [[Leonard Wilfred Powell]] 12 Nov 1943 - 14 Jan 1944
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* [[William Ritchie Napier]] 30 Dec 1943 - 3 Jan 1944
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====1944====
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* [[John Davidson]] 6 - 13 Jan 1944
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* [[Reginald James Bollard]] 15 Mar - 5 Jun 1944
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* [[James Henry Clarke]] 28 Mar - 5 May 1944
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* [[Donald Roberts Scott]] 1 May 1944
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* [[John Patrick Whitaker]] 10 Jun - 13 Sep 1944
 
* [[George Gould Elworthy]] 31 Jul 1944 - 3 Nov 1944
 
* [[George Gould Elworthy]] 31 Jul 1944 - 3 Nov 1944
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* [[Hubert Laurence Batt]] 8 Oct - 20 Nov 1944
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* [[Thomas John Geary]] 11 - 22 Oct 1944
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* [[Charles Armstrong Hanbury]] 21 Nov 1944 - 5 Jan 1945
 
* [[Valda Joy Newton]] 31 Nov 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
 
* [[Valda Joy Newton]] 31 Nov 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
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* [[Keith Raymond Mills]] 21 Dec 1944 - 6 Jan 1945
 
* [[Shirley Craddon]] 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
 
* [[Shirley Craddon]] 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
 
* [[Clarice Linda Savage]] 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
 
* [[Clarice Linda Savage]] 31 Dec 1944 - 28 Feb 1945
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====1945====
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* [[James David Watts]] 7 Jan - 3 Mar 1945
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* [[Luke Pense]] 11 Jan - 16 Mar 1945
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* [[Alfred Hansford Fuller]] 22 Jan - 4 Mar 1945
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* [[Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall]] 12 Feb - 2 May 1945 LWOP period
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* [[William Frederick Hanbury]] 28 Feb - 23 Mar 1945
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* [[Oliver Benson Sharpe]] 15 - 29 Apr 1945
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* [[Eima (Marie) Sturrock]] 12 - 16 Jun 1946
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* [[Cecil Sydney Fahey]] 31 Aug - 23 Oct 1945
 
* [[Allan James Watters]] 6 Sep - 29 Oct 1945
 
* [[Allan James Watters]] 6 Sep - 29 Oct 1945
* [[Eima (Marie) Sturrock]] 12 - 16 Jun 1946
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* [[Leslie Charles Peters]] 29 Sep - ?? Nov 1945
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* [[James Henry Clarke]] 8 - 13 Oct 1945
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* [[Ernest Stanley Lawrence]] 18 Oct 1945 - 25 Mar 1946
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====1946====
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* [[Allan Hugh Aitken]] 1 - 15 Jan 1946
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* [[Allan Butcher]] 5 Jan - 2 Feb 1946
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* [[Frederick Haughton Dawson]] 22 Jan - 14 Feb 1946
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* [[Douglas Joseph (Doug) Mills]] 5 Feb - 6 Mar 1946
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* [[David Gordon]] 11 - 17 Feb 1946
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* [[Ivan Farac]] 12 Feb 1946 - ??
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* [[Arthur Donald Free]] 4 May - 17 Jun 1946
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* [[William Ritchie Napier]] 7 - 14 Jun 1946
  
 
===Returnees Depot===
 
===Returnees Depot===
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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
 
* [[Walter Cyril Tomlinson]] 10 Dec 1941 - 20 Apr 1942
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* [[Edward Henderson Craghill]] 9 Jun 1942 - 8 Oct 1942
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* [[William John Eric Johnson]] 23 Oct - 16 Nov 1942
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* [[Edgar Paul Siebner]] 25 Mar - 7 Apr 1943
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* [[Graeme Patrick Benson]] 1 - 6 Apr 1943
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* [[Harold Frank Davy]] 20 Dec 1943 - 6 Jan 1944
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* [[Joseph George Lewis Jalli]] 17 Jul - 16 Aug 1945
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* [[Mervyn (Merv) James Rose]] 24 Aug - 4 Oct 1945
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* [[Keith Raymond Mills]] 28 Sep 1945 - 28 Mar 1946
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* [[Albert George Lawrence]] 18 Oct 1945 - 25 Mar 1946
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* [[Marvin Redvers Cuthbert Barge]] 28 Jan - 13 Mar 1946
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===Medical Wing===
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* [[Frederick John Anson]]  6 - 10 Oct 1941
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* [[David Stevenson]] 4 - 9 Dec 1941
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* [[William Boyd Griffiths]] 12 Oct 1942 - 22 Apr 1943
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* [[John James (Jack) Trappitt]] 11 Jan - 23 Mar 1943 & 7 - 20 Jan 1944
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* [[Herbert Andrew Thomas Alexander]] 19 Jan - 19 Apr 1943
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* [[Arthur Samuel William Alldridge]] 22 Jan - 4 Mar 1943
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* [[Eric William Wheatley]] 11 - 30 May 1943 & 10 Jun - 1 Jul 1943
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* [[Antonio Del Borrello]] 7 - 9 Jul 1943
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* [[Robert Hynes]] 26 Oct - 16 Nov 1943
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* [[William Francis James Elliott]] 16 - 19 Nov 1943
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* [[Steven Ralph Cox]] 3 Dec 1943 - 17 Jan 1944
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* [[Joseph Logan]] 16 Aug 1944 - 10 Dec 1946
  
 
===Western Command Discharge Depot===
 
===Western Command Discharge Depot===
'''1942'''
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===1941===
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* [[Walter Thomas Tremlett]] 15 - 17 Oct 1941
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====1942====
 
* [[William Thomas Wills]] 12 Feb 1942
 
* [[William Thomas Wills]] 12 Feb 1942
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* [[David Stevenson]] 10 Apr 1942
 
* [[Harold James Paulsen]] 26 Aug 1942
 
* [[Harold James Paulsen]] 26 Aug 1942
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* [[William George Ward]] 1 Sep 1942 - 7 Jan 1943
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* [[Charles John Sanford]] ?? - 5 Oct 1942
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* [[Edward Henderson Craghill]] 8 Oct - 5 Dec 1942
 
* [[Benjamin Stanley North]] 22 Oct - 4 Nov 1942
 
* [[Benjamin Stanley North]] 22 Oct - 4 Nov 1942
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* [[William John Eric Johnson]] 17 Nov - 17 Dec 1942
  
'''1943'''
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====1943====
 
* [[Thomas Egan]] 31 Mar - 12 Apr 1943
 
* [[Thomas Egan]] 31 Mar - 12 Apr 1943
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* [[William Robert Hayward]] 12 May 1943
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* [[Graeme Patrick Benson]] 15 May - 10 Jun 1943
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* [[William Boyd Griffiths]] 22 Apr - 27 May 1943
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* [[Richard Phillipson]] 18 Jun - 17 Jul 1943
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* [[Alan Clifton Navin Butcher]] 20 Jun - 21 Nov 1943
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* [[Eric William Wheatley]] 1 Jul - 8 Aug 1943
 
* [[Raby Kathleen Elizabeth Mack]] 27 Oct 1943
 
* [[Raby Kathleen Elizabeth Mack]] 27 Oct 1943
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* [[Edgar Paul Siebner]] 27 Sep - 23 Nov 1943
 
* [[Spencer Gwynne DCM MID]] 12 Oct - 10 Nov 1943
 
* [[Spencer Gwynne DCM MID]] 12 Oct - 10 Nov 1943
 
* [[Francis Malarkey]] 30 Oct - 19 Dec 1943
 
* [[Francis Malarkey]] 30 Oct - 19 Dec 1943
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* [[Richard Noel Craigie]] 22 Nov - 9 Dec 1943
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* [[Ernest Arnold (Arnold) Barnes]] 24 Dec 1943 - 26 Jan 1944
  
'''1944'''
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====1944====
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* [[Albert Dawson Winstanley]] 5 Jan 1944
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* [[Maxwell John Watson]] 6 Jan - 6 Mar 1944
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* [[William Francis James Elliott]] 10 Jan - 13 Mar 1944
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* [[Evan John David Davies]] 19 - 20 Jan 1944
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* [[James Gordon (Jock) Wheeler]] 25 Jan 1944
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* [[Leslie George Harden]] 28 Jan - 1 Feb 1944
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* [[Albert Edward New]] 16 Feb - 31 May 1944
 
* [[Miran Radovanovic]] 21 - 22 Feb 1944
 
* [[Miran Radovanovic]] 21 - 22 Feb 1944
* [[Leslie George Harden]] 28 Jan - 1 Feb 1944
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* [[Arthur Henry Crouch]] 8 Mar 1944
 
* [[George Charles Owens]] ?? - 10 Mar 1944
 
* [[George Charles Owens]] ?? - 10 Mar 1944
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* [[Thomas McFarlane Cunningham]] 15 - 16 Mar 1944
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* [[Roy Cincinatus Anderson]] 27 Mar - 17 Apr 1944
 
* [[Keith James Buckingham]] 28 Mar - 14 Apr 1944
 
* [[Keith James Buckingham]] 28 Mar - 14 Apr 1944
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* [[Frederick Phillipson]] 12 - 13 Apr 1944
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* [[George Henry Harden]] 13 Apr - 2 May 1944
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* [[Norman Stanley Cosh]] 14 - 18 Apr 1944
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* [[David Gordon]] 14 Apr - 2 May 1944
 
* [[Lancelot (Lance) William Cornell]] 21 - 28 Apr 1944
 
* [[Lancelot (Lance) William Cornell]] 21 - 28 Apr 1944
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* [[Leonard Wilfred Powell]] 29 Apr - 19 May 1944
 
* [[John Raymond Little]] 24 Jun - 18 Jul 1944
 
* [[John Raymond Little]] 24 Jun - 18 Jul 1944
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* [[Stanley George Jarick]] 29 - 30 Jun 1944
 
* [[Joyce Sinclair]] 18 - 22 Jul 1944
 
* [[Joyce Sinclair]] 18 - 22 Jul 1944
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* [[John Patrick Whitaker]] 22 Jul - 10 Aug 1944
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* [[John Rowland Griffiths]] 26 Jul - 10 Aug 1944
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 24 Aug - 8 Oct 1944
 
* [[Albert Cecil Clarence Curtis]] 24 Aug - 8 Oct 1944
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* [[Herbert Harold White]] 18 Sep - 22 Oct 1944
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* [[John Peter Lewis Rymer]] 21 Sep- 10 Oct 1944
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* [[Edward Ernest Wilson]] 22 Sep - 12 Oct 1944
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* [[Maurice Raven]] 25 - 26 Sep 1944
 
* [[William John Lucas]] 2 - 4 Oct 1944
 
* [[William John Lucas]] 2 - 4 Oct 1944
 
* [[Hamilton John Crook]] 16 - 18 Oct 1944
 
* [[Hamilton John Crook]] 16 - 18 Oct 1944
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* [[John James (Jack) Trappitt]] 16 - 27 Oct 1944
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* [[Stanley Garrett]] 27 - 30 Oct 1944
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* [[Ernest Woolhead]] 30 Oct - 1 Nov 1944
 
* [[Harold Jack Spencer]] 7 Nov - 4 Dec 1944
 
* [[Harold Jack Spencer]] 7 Nov - 4 Dec 1944
 
* [[William Thomas Wills]] 12 - 14 Nov 1944
 
* [[William Thomas Wills]] 12 - 14 Nov 1944
 
*[[John James Ainsworth]] 20 Nov 1944
 
*[[John James Ainsworth]] 20 Nov 1944
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* [[Cyril Arthur Holmes]] 20 Nov - 8 Dec 1944
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* [[Harry Alfred Curtis]] 29 Nov - 8 Dec 1944
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* [[Hubert Laurence Batt]] 22 - 27 Dec 1944
  
'''1945'''
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====1945====
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* [[Kenneth Graham Hicks]] 16 - 28 Jan 1945
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* [[Paul Lilleyman]] 29 Jan - 1 Feb 1945
 
* [[Stanley Upton Hammond]] 18 Mar - 12 Apr 1945
 
* [[Stanley Upton Hammond]] 18 Mar - 12 Apr 1945
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* [[Albert Henry Dyson]] 25 Apr - 21 May 1945
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* [[Maurice Weinbren]] 30 Apr - 8 May 1945
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* [[Stefano Alberti]] 16 - 30 May 1945
 
* [[Vivienne Dittman]] 5 - 7 Jun 1945
 
* [[Vivienne Dittman]] 5 - 7 Jun 1945
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* [[Thomas John Walsh]] 22 Jun - 6 Jul 1945
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* [[John Milton Hand]] 5 Jul - 30 Aug 1945
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* [[Stanton Edward McKenna]] 17 Jul - 30 Sep 1945
 
* [[Joseph Maria White]] 23 Jul - 8 Aug 1945
 
* [[Joseph Maria White]] 23 Jul - 8 Aug 1945
* [[Bortolomeo (Bortolo) Flematti]] 5 - 27 Sep 1945
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* [[Maxwell John Buckingham]] 7 Aug - 3 Dec 1945
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* [[Charles Amos George Victor Petersen]] 10 Aug - 20 Sep 1945
 
* [[Ronald Gwynne]] 14 Aug -  12 Oct 1945
 
* [[Ronald Gwynne]] 14 Aug -  12 Oct 1945
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* [[Steven Ralph Cox]] 14 Aug - 31 Oct 1945
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* [[Alfred John Davies]] 15 Aug - 4 Sep 1945
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* [[Frederick Joseph Powell]] ?? Aug - 14 Nov 1945
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* [[John Alfred Vernon Hanbury]] 31 Aug - 6 Oct 1945
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* [[Joseph George Lewis Jalli]] 31 Aug - 1 Sep 1945
 
* [[Bortolomeo (Bortolo) Flematti]] 5 - 27 Sep 1945
 
* [[Bortolomeo (Bortolo) Flematti]] 5 - 27 Sep 1945
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* [[Allan Edmund Young]] 5 Sep - 4 Oct 1945
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* [[Douglas George Edgar Alexander]] 7 Sep - 15 Oct 1945
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* [[Herbert Andrew Thomas Alexander]] 7 Sep - 15 Oct 1945
 
* [[Alfred Edward James Tresidder]] 10 Sep - 21 Nov 1945
 
* [[Alfred Edward James Tresidder]] 10 Sep - 21 Nov 1945
 
* [[Leon Ernest Aubrey]] 13 Sep - 8 Nov 1945
 
* [[Leon Ernest Aubrey]] 13 Sep - 8 Nov 1945
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* [[John Coffey]] 16 Sep 1945 - 30 Jan 1946
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* [[Roy Searle Williams]] 18 Sep - 23 Oct 1945
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* [[Douglas Victor Wilkinson]] 18 Sep - 22 Oct 1945
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* [[Edmond Hepple Brown MID]] 19 - 28 Sep 1945
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* [[Richard Barrett]] 24 - 28 September 1945
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* [[John William Alexander]] 28 Sep - 3 Nov 1945
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* [[Hubert James (Jim) Gale]] 8 - 12 Oct 1945
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* [[Alexander James Harris]] 9 Oct - 12 Nov 1945
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* [[Oliver Donald George Bruce]] 9 - 31 Oct 1945
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* [[Roy Alva Stirling]] 11 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
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* [[Leo Gibbs]] 13 Oct - 15 Nov 1945
 
* [[Frank Croudson]] 16 - 24 Oct 1945
 
* [[Frank Croudson]] 16 - 24 Oct 1945
 
* [[Harold George Bell]] 16 - 29 Oct 1945  
 
* [[Harold George Bell]] 16 - 29 Oct 1945  
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* [[Charles William (Tiny) Gray]] 17 Oct 19435 - 7 Jan 1946
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* [[William Leslie Roberts]] 17 Oct - 12 Nov 1945
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* [[Edward Arthur Sewell]] 17 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
 
* [[Harry Cecil Brown]] 17 - 19 Oct 1945
 
* [[Harry Cecil Brown]] 17 - 19 Oct 1945
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* [[Donald Norman MacLeod Lyall]] ?? Oct - 25 Oct 1945
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* [[John Francis (Jack) Cucel]] 19 - 22 Oct 1945
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* [[Reginald James Bollard]] 19 - 25 Oct 1945
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* [[Cyril Newton]] 19 Oct - 8 Nov 1945
 
* [[John Thomas Madgwick]] 20 - 23 Oct 1945
 
* [[John Thomas Madgwick]] 20 - 23 Oct 1945
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* [[Allan Denman Baldwin]] 20 - 24 Oct 1945
 
* [[Thomas Geoffrey Eliot]] 21 Oct - 10 Dec 1945
 
* [[Thomas Geoffrey Eliot]] 21 Oct - 10 Dec 1945
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* [[James David Watts]] 21 Oct - 6 Nov 1945
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* [[George Victor Parkin]] 1 Nov - 5 Dec 1945 & 1 - 10 Feb 1947
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* [[Thomas John Geary]] 22 - 24 Oct 1945
 
* [[Robert Henry Fletcher]] 26 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
 
* [[Robert Henry Fletcher]] 26 Oct - 2 Nov 1945
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* [[Joseph George Nicholls]] 30 Oct - 5 Dec 1945
 
* [[Peter Spence]] 2 - 8 Nov 1945
 
* [[Peter Spence]] 2 - 8 Nov 1945
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* [[Alfred James Gregory]] 2 - 27 Nov 1945
 
* [[Eric William Taylor]] 3 Nov 1945 - 29 Jan 1946
 
* [[Eric William Taylor]] 3 Nov 1945 - 29 Jan 1946
* [[George Gould Elworthy]] 7 - 14 Nov 1945  
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* [[Arthur Samuel William Alldridge]] 4 Nov - 10 Dec 1945
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* [[Robert Hynes]] 5 - 14 Nov 1945
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* [[John Stephen Serventy]] 5 Nov 1945 - 3 Jan 1946
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* [[Cyril John Dunnell]] 7 - 15 Nov 1945
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* [[George Gould Elworthy]] 7 - 14 Nov 1945
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* [[John Ernest Law-Davis]] 9 - 16 Nov 1945
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* [[John William Watson]] 9 - 16 Nov 1945
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* [[Victor Emanuel Valli]] ?? Nov 1945 - 1 Apr 1946
 
* [[Joan Lucien Collins]] 12 - 23 Nov 1945
 
* [[Joan Lucien Collins]] 12 - 23 Nov 1945
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* [[John Orbel Whitefield Parkin]] 12 - 23 Nov 1945
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* [[Sydney Eric Mills]] 12 Nov 1945 - 22 Jan 1946
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* [[Frederick Martin Wilton]] 13 - 23 Nov 1945
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* [[Edwin Reed Marshall]] 14 - 28 Nov 1945
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* [[Albert Chamberlain]] 18 - 26 Nov 1945
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* [[Charles Armstrong Hanbury]] 23 - 29 Nov 1945
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* [[Francis (George) Hicks MM]] 24 Nov 1945 - 18 Jun 1946
 
* [[Albert George Joseph Jackson]] 27 Nov - 7 Dec 1945
 
* [[Albert George Joseph Jackson]] 27 Nov - 7 Dec 1945
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* [[Ronald Arthur Grafham]] 27 Nov - 7 Dec 1945
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* [[Edward Charles (Ted) Fancote]] 30 Nov 1945 - 3 Jan 1946 & 18 Jan 1946
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* [[Percy Whittaker]] 3 - 5 Dec 1945
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* [[Donald Norrish MacDonald]] 4 Dec 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
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* [[Wilfred Brettell Duke]] 6 - 20 Dec 1945
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* [[Edward John Murphy]] 7 Dec 1945
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* [[William Leslie Cucel]] 7 - 14 Dec 1945
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* [[Arthur Gordon Hubbard]] 8 Dec 1945- 13 Jan 1946
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* [[Vesey Fitzgerald]] 10 Dec 1945 - 16 Jan 1946
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* [[James Robert McCormack]] 12 - 13 Dec 1945
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* [[Angus Sherwood James]] 16 Dec 1945 - 18 Jan 1946
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* [[Donald George Martin]] 17 - 24 Dec 1945
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* [[Raymond Victor Clough]] 18 - 21 Dec 1945
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* [[Frank Lindsay Cornish]] 19 Dec 1945 - 16 Jan 1946
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* [[Robert William Murphy]] 20 Dec 1945 - 8 Jan 1946
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* [[John Bennett Prentice]] 20 Dec 1945 - 10 Jan 1946
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* [[Mervyn Eric Doherty]] 24 Dec 1945 - 21 Jan 1946
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* [[Antonio Del Borrello]] 27 Dec 1945 - 21 Mar 1946
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* [[George Sydney Devereaux]] 29 Dec 1945 - 29 Jan 1946
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* [[William Albert Nicholls]] 29 Dec 1945 - 25 Jan 1946
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* [[Harold Philip Orton]] 29 Dec 1945 - 21 Feb 1946
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* [[Raymond Henry Butcher]] 30 Dec 1945 - 20 Feb 1946 discharged in NSW)
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* [[Harold Chamberlain]] 30 Dec 1944 - 7 Jan 1946
  
'''1946'''
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====1946====
* [[Angus Sherwood James]] 16 Dec 1945 - 18 Jan 1946
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* [[Alan Henry Brockwell]] 2 - 22 Jan 1946
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* [[William Rice Gregory]] 4 - 7 Jan 1946
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* [[Alexander William Turner MID]] 8 - 10 Jan 1946
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* [[Ernest Emanuel Mills]]  12 Jan - 25 Feb 1946
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* [[Charles Kenneth Neilson]] 14 Jan 1946 -14 Feb 1946 & 5 Mar 1946 - 31 Jan 1947??
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* [[William Francis Buck]] 17 Jan - 6 Feb 1946
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* [[Jack Cartwright]] 22 Jan - 13 Mar 1946
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* [[Frederick Charles Lawrence]] 27 Jan - 15 Mar 1946
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* [[Arthur Gordon Fielder]] 28 Jan - 11 Mar 1946
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* [[Edward Maurice Trew]] 2 Feb - 23 Apr 1946
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* [[Frederick Thomas Orton Miller]] 2 - 20 Feb 1946
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* [[Alan Kirwan Donaldson]] 11 - 21 Feb 1946
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* [[Jack David Bunney]] 13 Feb - 7 Mar 1946
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* [[Arthur McVeigh]] 9 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
 
* [[Daisy Ella Logan]] 11 - 27 Mar 1946
 
* [[Daisy Ella Logan]] 11 - 27 Mar 1946
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* [[Robert Neil Anderson]] 12 - 15 Mar 1946
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* [[Edward James (Jim) Lawrence]] 17 Mar - 27 Jun 1946
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* [[Cecil Sydney Fahey]] 18 Mar - 1 Apr 1946
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* [[Albert George Lawrence]] 26 - 28 Mar 1946
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* [[Ernest Stanley Lawrence]] 26 - 28 Mar 1946
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* [[Keith Raymond Mills]] 29  Mar - 2 Apr 1946
 
* [[Clarice Linda Savage]] 30 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
 
* [[Clarice Linda Savage]] 30 Mar - 2 Apr 1946
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* [[Denys Brettell Duke]] 9 Apr 1946
 
* [[Samuel Battle Hammond]] 9 Apr - 26 May 1946
 
* [[Samuel Battle Hammond]] 9 Apr - 26 May 1946
 
* [[John Milenko Marian]] 16 - 23 Apr 1946
 
* [[John Milenko Marian]] 16 - 23 Apr 1946
 
* [[Mary Evelyn Grace Hynes]] 9 - 10 May 1946
 
* [[Mary Evelyn Grace Hynes]] 9 - 10 May 1946
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* [[James Wilkinson]] 13 - 27 May 1946
 
* [[Shirley Craddon]] 28 May - 26 Jun 1946
 
* [[Shirley Craddon]] 28 May - 26 Jun 1946
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* [[Alan Gordon Buckingham]] 15 Jun - 2 Aug 1946
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* [[Leslie Charles Peters]] 18 Jun - 5 Jul 1946
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* [[Curnow Andrew Knuckey]] 19 - 21 Jun 1946
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* [[Robert Thomas Buckenara]] 21 Jun - 8 Jul 1946
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* [[Douglas Joseph (Doug) Mills]] 21 - 25 Jun 1946
 
* [[Viola Shirley Franklin]] 21 Jun - 1 Jul 1946
 
* [[Viola Shirley Franklin]] 21 Jun - 1 Jul 1946
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* [[Frederick Haughton Dawson]] 22 - 29 Jul 1945
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* [[Edith Marion Rymer]] 22 - 29 Jul 1946
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* [[Luke Pense]] 29 Jul - 2 Aug 1946
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* [[Marvin Redvers Cuthbert Barge]] 24 - 26 Jul 1946
 
* [[Valda Joy Newton]] 3 - 8 Aug 1946
 
* [[Valda Joy Newton]] 3 - 8 Aug 1946
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* [[Allan Hugh Aitken]] 12 - 15 Aug 1946
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* [[Alfred Hansford Fuller]] 14 - 21 Aug 1946
 
* [[Wanda Dawne Sullivan]] 17 - 23 Aug 1946
 
* [[Wanda Dawne Sullivan]] 17 - 23 Aug 1946
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* [[Roy Kershaw]] 16 Sep - 10 Oct 1946
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* [[William Albert Arthur Parkin]] 17 - 23 Oct 1946
 
* [[Winifred Frances Thompson]] 13 - 16 Nov 1946
 
* [[Winifred Frances Thompson]] 13 - 16 Nov 1946
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* [[Joseph Logan]] 11 Dec 1946 - 9 Jan 1947
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* [[Stanley Charles Gregory]] 23 Dec 1946 - 16 Jan 1947
  
'''1947'''
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====1947====
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* [[John Hartley Craddon]] 6 - 13 Jan 1947
 
* [[Norman Henry Napier Fowler]] 20 - 23 Jan 1947
 
* [[Norman Henry Napier Fowler]] 20 - 23 Jan 1947
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* [[Henry George Price]] 24 Jan - 5 Feb 1947]]
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* [[John Whittaker ww2]] 21 Feb - 16 Mar 1947
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* [[Bernard (Jim) Johnson]] 13 Feb - 6 Mar 1947
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* [[Mervyn (Merv) James Rose]] 21 Feb - 16 Mar 1947
 
* [[Henry Victor (Harry) Fowler]] 7 - 12 Mar 1947
 
* [[Henry Victor (Harry) Fowler]] 7 - 12 Mar 1947
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* [[Edward James (Jim) Lawrence]] 17 Mar - 27 Jun 1947
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* [[Walter James Holmes]] 26 Mar  - 3 Apr 1947
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* [[John (Jack) Balshaw]] 12 - 18 Sep 1947
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* [[Brian Albert Rose]] 30 Nov - 8 Dec 1947
  
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===1949===
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* [[David Gordon]] 19 Feb - 4 Mar 1949
  
 
====Notes====
 
====Notes====

Latest revision as of 20:48, 24 January 2024

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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

General Details Depot

Personnel between postings.

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

Returnees Depot

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

Medical Wing

Western Command Discharge Depot

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

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


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