Digitized files for these WW2 servicemen recently became available online.
NAME | DATE OF BIRTH | PLACE OF BIRTH |
WILSON KENNETH READING | 07 Feb 1924 | MONTREAL CANADA |
GODDARD HERBERT CHARLES | 01 Jul 1911 | TORONTO CANADA |
BAILEY WILLIAM JOHN | 25 Jun 1906 | BRIAR CREST CANADA |
PRENTER SAMUEL | 23 Jun 1912 | ST JOSEPHS ISLAND CANADA |
HOPES WILLIAM ERNEST | 18 Sep 1914 | SHELLBOURNE CANADA |
UTLEY LAURENCE GEORGE | 20 Apr 1910 | TORONTO CANADA |
O’LEARY LEWIS ALEXANDER | 28 Sep 1915 | VANCOUVER CANADA |
OWEN ARTHUR | 12 Jul 1897 | TORONTO CANADA |
The same source shows recently available WW2 service files for 1,195 men born in England, 43 from Wales, 352 from Scotland, 107 from Ireland.
They are among 23,123 newly scanned records by the National Archives of Australia in the last month, the majority for men who served with Australian forces during the war.
BTW, if you don’t find them in other records recall that information given on military enlistment is often problematic. Claiming an overseas birth could be a useful subtefuge to hide an inconvenient truth.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ListingReports/NewlyScannedList.aspx