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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

John Lennox DESORMES

Born 11 April 1921 in England [16] [21]
Son of Mr and Mrs J. A. DESORMES, who were of Birmingham, England in 1941 [0: image 04058]
Left England for Western Australia at the age of eleven years through the Child Emigration Society [203]
Departed from Southampton, England on the steamship Jervis Bay and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 May 1932 [63]
Resided in Carnamah prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 22 September 1941 [0: image 02938] [16]
Corporal WX16952 in the Australian Army's 2/32 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Spent his leave from the Army in November 1941 staying with the PRICE family atPasschendaele Farm in Carnamah [0: image 04046]
By December 1941 he was engaged to be married to Miss Verna PRICE of Carnamah[0: image 04058]
During his leave in Carnamah before active service was honoured at a function in the Carnamah Hall in December 1941 [0: image 04060]
Spent further leave with the PRICE family at Passchendaele Farm on the Inering Estate in Carnamah in April 1942 [0: image 04091]
Married Verna Pleasance PRICE in Perth in July 1942 [0: image 04113]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 26 February 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Scarborough [2]
Died 11 June 1993; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'John Lennox Desormes' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/john-lennox-desormes [reference list]




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