John Vincent CONAGHTY

Service Number: 417565

Enlisted: 9 June 1942, Adelaide

Last Rank: Flying Officer

Born: Wallar oo, SA, 10 July 1916

9 Jun 1942: Involvement Flying Officer, SN 417565

9 Jun 1942: Enlisted Adelaide

4 Dec 1945: Discharged

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Item details for: A9300, CONAGHTY J V

National Archives Australia

Family

Birth

Given Name(s): John Vincent

Last Name: CONAGHTY

Birth Date: 1916, July 10

Gender: M

Father: John CONAGHTY

Mother: Sarah Jane BREW

Birth Place/Residence: Wallaroo Mines

District: Daly

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Book/Page: 982/464

Marriage

to Audrey nee BLAKEWAY, 3 children: Pam, Wayne and Lynette

Divorced 24 Aug 1950

Death

Given Name(s): John Vincent (Vin)

Surname: CONAGHTY

Death Date: 1979, July 03

Age:

Publication Date: 1979, July 04

Publication: Advertiser

Burial

Cheltenham Cemetery with parents.

KI Connection

A resident from immediately before the war.

Newspaper articles refer to his wife (Audrey) who was waiting for him on K.I. during the war, and his visits "home". He divorced her, and she got remarried to Morris Burgess. He was playing tennis in 1940. His name is given to the J. V. Conaghty Trophy (500 yards) Kingscote Rife Club. He was playing cricket and golf on KI in 1948. He was on the committee of the Kingscote Football Club in 1949. In that same year he was working on the s.s. "Warrawee" and met with an accident. He was advertising his butcher shop in 1948.