Service: Army – 54 Anti Aircraft Searchlight Battery
Service number: VF511262
Locality on Enlistment: Birregurra
Duration of Service: 14 June 1943 – 23 Nov 1945
Prisoner of War: No
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 23 May 1925 Apollo Bay
Parents: John Edwin O’MALLEY and Gertrude STEELE
Spouse: John Frederick MORTLEY
School/s: Apollo Bay, Wye River & Birregurra State Schools
Occupation: Home duties and Woolspinner
Date and Place of Death:
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NOTES: The photograph shown is titled “Sunshine, Vic. 29 Mar 1944. Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Members of the 54th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery operating a sound locator, during a unit exercise”. Identified personnel is:- VF511262 Gunner R.E. O’Malley, left (1). Australian War Memorial