GREEN, Joseph Jackson
| Service Number: | WX18228 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3 Field Regiment AMF |
| Born: | Norseman, Western Australia, 11 November 1913 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Trucker |
| Died: | Manjimup, Western Australia, 28 August 1987, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Manjimup Lawn Cemetery |
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World War 2 Service
| 24 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX18228 |
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World War 1 Service
| 14 Nov 1942: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 3 Field Regiment AMF |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Feb 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX18228 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Joseph Jackson Green (Service No:WX18228) enlisted in the Australian Army on 24 Deceember 1941 and served with 1, 13 and 32 and Infantry Training Battalions and 3 Field Regiment. In 1942 Private Green was posted to Rottnest Island, and was Discharged on 20 February 1945. Private Green was one of seven siblings who served in WWII.
Born in 1913 in Norseman WA, Joseph was the ninth of twelve children of William Henry Green (b1878 at Halls Gap in the Northern Grampians, Victoria) and Clara Elizabeth Crudace (b1877 in Stawell, Victoria). William (a Miner) and Clara married in 1900 in Stawell, Victoria and by 1902 had moved to the Goldfields in WA. William was a Miner in the Goldfields region - Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Bulong, Boorara, Kanowna, Norseman, Burbanks - before moving to Manjimup in the late 1920s where he was a Farmer.
Joseph worked as a Prospector in Yilgarn and in 1939 in Coolgardie married Teresa Maria Toia (b1916 in Boulder, WA). In 1941 Joseph was a Trucker in Boulder WA when he enlisted, and following his Discharge he and Teresa lived in Wattle Grove, Canning WA where Joseph was a Spinner. By 1954 Joseph and Teresa had settled at Donnelly River in Manjimup WA where Joseph was a Farmer. Teresa died in March 1987 and Joseph in August that year.