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
Item details for: A9300, CONAGHTY J V
National Archives Australia
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
Symbol:
Book/Page: 982/464
to Audrey nee BLAKEWAY, 3 children: Pam, Wayne and Lynette
Divorced 24 Aug 1950
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.
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.