93198 CORPORAL Dorothy Jean MCARTHUR

Service No: 93198
Service: Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force
Place of Birth: Crookwell
Highlights: Dorothy enlisted on 5 Mar 1942 aged 21 years. After undertaking initial training at Bradfield Park she was employed as an equipment assistant at 5 Service Flying Training School, Uranquinty before undertaking a course at the RAAF School of Technical Training to become a Meteorological Charter in Dec 1942.

Promoted to Corporal on 1 Aug 1943 and posted to RAAF Station Evans Head - 1 Gunnery & Bombing School, then RAAF Rathmines (Flying Boats) and finally RAAF Richmond, before discharging on 29 Oct 1945.

Dorothy lived in Haberfield after discharge and married VX64100 Frank Lenne Salter at Sydney in 1946. Frank had served with 22 Brigade Workshop in Malaya and was a Prisoner of War in Changi, Singapore.