WITNEY, Walter James
| Service Number: | W95277 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Jeparit, Victoria, Australia, 24 May 1905 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Billiard Room Proprietor |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 April 1973, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ferntree Gully Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W95277 | |
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| 4 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W95277 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Walter James Witney (Service No:W95277) enlisted in Kalgoorlei, WA in the ACMF on 9 June 1942 and was attached to 36 Australian Infantry Training Battalion (AIFTB). Transferred to Australian Base Store Coy on 2 September 1944, Sapper Witney was Discharged on 4 September 1945.
Born in Jeparit, Victoria in 1905, Wally was third of ten children of Walter William Witney (b1870 in Dimboola, Victoria) and Emelie (Millie) Pauline Miller (b1879 in Dimboola, Victoria). Walter (a Farmer) and Millie married in 1901 in Dimboola and settled in Jeparit where they raised their family and Walter was a Farmer. The family lived in Jeparit, Dimboola and Warracknabeal where Walter was a Farmer.
Wally worked as a Farm Hand in Wycheproof, Wimmera in the 1920s before moving to Western Australia in the early 1930s where he worked as a Labourer at Duranillan nr Colle WA. He was a Lumper and Agent for Westralian Farmers Ltd at Latham via Perenjori in 1934 when he married Myra Gwendoline Cooper (b1912 in Jamestown, South Australia) in Carnamah, WA. Wally and Myra lived in Boulder and Northam where Wally was a Billiard Room Proprietor, Taxi Proprietor and Miner. Following their Divorce in the mid 1950s, Myra remarried and Wally moved back to Victoria where he worked as a Storekeeper and Prospector in Mansfield, Indi, Victoria. Wally died in 1973.
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