GEDDES, Jack Carlton
| Service Number: | W237353 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 14 February 1902 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Died: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 8 November 1960, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, W237353, Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF) | |
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| 21 Feb 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, W237353, Australian Army Pay Corps (AMF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Jack (born John Edward) was the eldest child of John Geddes (b1868 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Annie Dwyer (b1868 in Cornella, Victoria). John (an Undertaker) and Annie married in Perth WA in 1901. John and Annie lived in Perth and Kalgoorlie WA where John worked as an Undertaker/Funeral Director, Prospector and Carpenter.
Jack was a student in Perth WA in the 1920s and by 1939 was a Journalist when he enlisted in the ACMF - he stated in his Attestation Papers that his Religious Denomination was ;Free Thinker'. Jack (Sergeant; Service No:W237353) was in Darwin NT on 4 August 1942 and was attached to Army Pay Corps in February 1945 when he was Discharged.
In 1947 Jack was in Kalgoorlie WA working as a Journalist when he married Mavis Caroline Eastlake (b1910 in Day Dawn WA) - Caroline was a Teacher. Jack and Caroline moved to Geraldton WA in 1949 where they settled and raised their family. Jack was a Journalist and Newspaper Editor in Geraldton, where he died in 1960. Mavis died in 1996.