DOUGLAS, Roderick Norman
| Service Numbers: | TX409, 439273 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Field Cash Offices |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 7 December 1916 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 22 February 1976, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
| 7 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, TX409 | |
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| 22 Apr 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX409, ex Melbourne for Lentara per HMT Y4 | |
| 9 Oct 1940: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Feb 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, Australian Field Cash Offices, 23 Australian Depot Cash Office | |
| 8 Jun 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, TX409 | |
| 9 Jun 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 439273 | |
| 30 Apr 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 439273 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Flight Sergeant Roderick Norman Douglas (Service No:439273) served with the AIF prior to enlisting in the RAAF. He enlisted as a Private (Service No:TX409) on 7 November 1939 and served in the Middle East - embarked from Melbourne for Lentara on 22 April 1940 on board HMT Y4 - and in Greece. He was hospitalised at Gaza with Influenza and then Mumps. Sergeant Douglas served with Composite Coy (formerly 19th Infantry Training Brigade), Petrol Coy 6th Division and 23 Australian Depot Cash Office. Sergeant Douglas Discharged on 16 February 1943 and enlisted in Sydney NSW in the RAAF on 9 June 1943. Flight Sergeant Douglas was attached to Advanced Flying and Refresher Unit Denilquin when he Discharged on 30 April 1945.
Born in 1916 in Launceston Tasmania, Roderick was the eldest of four children of Roderick Gordon Douglas (b1885 in Launceston, Tasmania) and Ila Alice Findlay (b1890 in Launceston, Tasmania). Roderick Snr (an Engineer) and Ila married in 1916 in Launceston, Tasmania and lived in Ringarooma, Ulverstone and Launceston where they raised their family and Roderick was an Engineer.
Roderick was a Clerk with the Taxation Office in Hobart, Tasmania and in 1937 married Kathleen May Walters (b1919 in Latrobe, Tasmania). Roderick and Kathleen Divorced in Launceston in 1943 and Roderick remarried in Sale, Victoria in 1945 to Myra Jean Whykes (b1924 in Sale, Victoria). Roderick was an Assessor with the Taxation Office and he and Myra lived in Franklin until Myra's sudden death in 1954. Roderick then worked in Hobart as an Assessor with the Taxation Office. He died in 1976.
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