HOLLIWAY, Joseph
| Service Number: | W18787 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 29 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 23 July 1905 |
| Home Town: | Paynes Find, Yalgoo, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Beverley, Western Australia, 13 June 1972, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Beverley Catholic and Methodist Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Yalgoo War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 19 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, W18787 | |
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| 4 Mar 1943: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 29 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
| 31 Oct 1944: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 29 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
| 7 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, W18787 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Joseph Holliway - Baptised Samuel (Sam) George Dyson - was the fourth of eight children of Matthew Dyson Snr (b1861 in Perth, WA) and Emma Holloway (b1877 in Toodyay, WA). Matthew (a Wood Dealer) and Emma married in 1895 in Fremantle WA where they settled and raised their family. Matthew worked as a Wood Dealer and Farmer at Bibra Lake and Beaconsfield, Fremantle WA. Following his death in 1911 Emma remarried - Pasquale Tombolini (b1881 in Italy). Pasquale (a Fisherman) and Emma had separated by 1916, and Emma was living in Fremantle and working to support herself and the youngest children.
Sam was frequently in trouble with the law, and in 1922 was described by PC Cornell (Daily News; 19 April 1922) as '... a very wild one and once threatened to shoot (PC Cornell and a number of other lads). The lad is a sort of terror in the neighbourhood ...'. Sam was working in Popinyanning, WA as a Farm Labourer in 1935 when he married Julia Darby (b1902 in Balfour Downs, WA) in Dalwalinu, WA. Sam and Julia were living at Payne's Find, Mt Magnet, WA where Sam was a Labourer when he enlisted in the ACMF as Joseph Holliway- putting his birthdate forward four years. Sam was a Private (Service No:W18787) with 29 Garrison Battalion WA. He was a Corporal attached to 5 Lines of Communication Provost Coy when he was Discharged in February 1946.
Sam and Julie divorced and in 1946 in Perth WA, and Sam remarried to Bernice Louisa Smith (nee De Young; b1928 in Midland Junction WA). Bernice was a Divorcee (she was sixteen years of age when she married an American Sailor in Fremantle WA). Sam and Bernice settled in Beverley, WA where Sam worked as a Farm Labourer before becoming an Orderley/Gardener at Beverley District Hospital. Sam died in 1972 and Bernice in 1975.