BARKER, Neil Douglas
| Service Number: | 210018 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 September 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 35 Squadron (RAAF) - WW2 |
| Born: | Broome, Western Australia, Australia, 12 March 1914 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Shoalwater Bay, Western Australia, Australia, 8 March 1997, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 210018, No. 35 Squadron (RAAF) - WW2 | |
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| 22 Aug 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 210018, No. 35 Squadron (RAAF) - WW2 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Neil was the youngest of four children of Walter Henry Barker (born 1871 in Burrowa, NSW) and Florence Gibb (born 1876 in Gordon near Ballarat, Victoria). Walter and Florence married in Leonora, WA in 1901 where Walter was a Journalist. When Neil was born in 1914, the family was living in Broome, WA where Walter was a Journalist, a JP and had established the North West Echo. Neil was eleven years of age when his father died in 1925 in Broome WA.
In 1936 Neil was living in Subiaco in Perth Wa and working as a Carpenter when he met Linda Olive Clarke, a Dressmaker (born 1913 in Perth WA). They married in December 1937 in perth, WA.
Neil and Linda were living in Wembley Park in Perth where Neil was working as a Carpenter when he enlisted at Pearce, WA in the RAAF in September 1939. He served as a Flight Sergeant (Service No: 210018) with 35 Squadron and was Discharged in August 1945.
Neil's eldest brother - Keith Walter Colin Barker, a Journalist and Printer - served in the ACMF as a Private (Service No: W76867) with 16 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps. Older brother - Jack Malcolm Barker, a Miner - served with the RAAF as an Aircraftman 1 (Service No: 16999) with No 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale.
Neil and Linda moved to Roleystone where Neil was an Orchardist, and in 1960 they moved to Cannington where Neil resumed work as a Carpenter. They then moved to Shoalwater Bay in Rockingham, WA where Neil worked as a Carpenter until he retired. Neil died in 1997 and Linda in 2004.