BLACK, Douglas Costin
| Service Numbers: | Q45695, 44675 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 81 (F) Wing HQ |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 August 1922 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | State Commercial High School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bookkeeper (RACQ) |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 January 1998, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland Queensland Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Q45695, RAAF 44675 (16/3/42-11/1/46) | |
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| 16 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 44675, No. 1 Wireless Air Gunnery School Ballarat | |
| 12 Aug 1942: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, No. 6 Squadron (RAAF) | |
| 21 Sep 1944: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 109 Mobile Fighter Control Unit | |
| 3 Nov 1944: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 1 Tactical Air Force Labuan | |
| 1 May 1945: | Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 81 (F) Wing HQ | |
| 11 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 44675, 81 (F) Wing HQ |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Douglas Costin Black (Service No:44675) served in the ACMF (Service No:Q45695) from 3 September 1939 and enlisted in the RAAF (Aircraftman) on 16 March 1942, mustering as a Trainee Wireless Telegraphist at No ! Wireless Air Gunnery School (WAGS) Ballarat - he was described as a 'Good type. Intelligent well dressed and mannered' (NAA). He served with 6 Squadron Richmond and Horn Island as a Telegraphist and was promoted to Leading Aircraftman in Milne Bay on 1 January 1943. LAC Black served with 9 Mobile Fighter Sector HQ at Milne Bay and in December was promoted to Corporal. Corporal Black then served with 1st Tactical Air Force (TAC) HQ Noemfoor in 1944 and in 1945 with Ist TAC Telecommunications Unit in Morotai. On 1 May 1945 he transferred to 81 Wing HQ and was Discharged on 11 January 1946. Both older brothers - Walter and Frank - served in WWII.
Born in 1922 in Brisbane QLD, Doug was the youngest of three children (sons) of Walter Samuel Black (b1885 in Brisbane, QLD) and Florence (Florrie) Elsie Costin (b1886 in Brisbane, QLD). Walter (a Railway Porter) and Florrie married in 1909 in Brisbane QLD where they settled and raised their family and Walter worked for QGR as a Porter and Railway Guard.
Doug worked for the RACQ in Brisbane as a Cashier and Clerk prior to his enlistment. He returned to Brisbane, where he was working as a Clerk in the early 1950s when he married Lenore Morley Hoey (nee Frances; b1917 in Brisbane, QLD) - Lenore was working as a Clerk. Doug and Lenore settled in Brisbane where Doug was a Manager. In 1977 Doug was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette; 1977) and in the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for service to the retail industry' (Trove 1981). Doug died in 1998 and Lenore in 2018.
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