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NICOLLS Jack William Pellew

Service: RAAF Bat RAF
Service number: 401566
Locality on Enlistment: South Yarra
Duration of Service: 1 Mar 1941 – 21 Dec 1945
Prisoner of War: No
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 12 Dec 1920 Birregurra
Parents: William David NICHOLLS and Coral Daphne BAILEY
Spouse: Margaret Mary COTYO (COTTO)
School/s: Hampton H.S. Melbourne H.S. Melbourne Technical College University of Melbourne
Occupation: Switchboard operator, Physicist
Date and Place of Death: 15 Jun 2015
Place of Burial:

NOTES: Jack was stationed in England flying fighter planes which included the coveted Spitfire.  Whilst in England Jack met and married Margaret in 1943.  After the war, he returned to Australia and went on to gain a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1950. He worked as a physicist for the C.S.I.R.O.