William George Joseph CANNON

CANNON, William George Joseph

Service Number: NX4152
Enlisted: 3 November 1939
Last Rank: Signaller
Last Unit: 2nd/1st Field Regiment
Born: Ashfield, NSW, 3 March 1919
Home Town: Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales
Schooling: Home Tutored, Boarding School Sydney
Occupation: Jackeroo
Memorials: Hay Water Tower Art Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Nov 1939: Enlisted Signaller, NX4152, 2nd/1st Field Regiment

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

George Cannon was born on the 3rd March 1919 and grew up in Booligal. He was the only child of William Patrick Cannon, a returned Light Horseman who served in Palestine during the Great War. George’s mother was Isabelle Melrose from Hay and lived on local properties Gre Gre and Eli Elwah as a child.

George’s early education was by home tutoring at Booligal before leaving for boarding school in Sydney from 1929 – 1936. After leaving school he jackerooed in the Jerilderie district of NSW. After some years there he travelled north to Queensland shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.

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