http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/64...ordinary-bloke/

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Sandra

Fair dinkum, thanks for sharing that.
Name Choules, Claude Stanley
Official Number: J60249
Place of Birth: Pershore, Worcestershire
Date 03 March 1901
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...p;resultcount=1

Thanks for that Sandra.

Hope some of his UK family find him

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Sandra

Thanks, Sandra.

Here's his RAN service record:
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.as...mp;I=1&SE=1

He joined the RAN in 1926. He was on the Canberra, my Dad's ship, when she was newly commissioned in 1928. I notice he transferred to the Naval Dockyard Police in 1950 (my grandfather was in the NDP) and left the RAN in 1956.

There's another NAA record about a motor accident in 1947, which gets a mention on his record.

His son was baptised aboard HMS Sussex when it visited Fremantle in 1934. His daughter was previously baptised in HMS Vernon in England.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/artic...=CLAUDE+CHOULES

Would be an interesting book, by the sound of it.

Martin

My pleasure

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Sandra