Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Navy
- Conflict
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Date of Enlistment
- 20/05/1941
- Date of Discharge
- 19/03/1946
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 10/10/1923
- Place of Birth
- Canberra ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Causeway, Kingston ACT
- Next of Kin
- Maud Drayton (mother), Causewa, Kingston ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- S5569
- Final Rank
- Stoker
- Final Unit
- HMAS Rushcutter
Notes
Drayton was serving on the destroyer HMAS Nestor when it was bombed by enemy airplanes in June 1942 off the coast of Crete and then scuttled. He then served on another destroyer, HMAS Napier before returning to Australia.
After the war he worked as a painter and later lived in Burnie, Tasmania and at Wallendbeen NSW.
Description - height 5 feet 4½ inches, brown hair, hazel eyes, medium complexion, Church of England.
Sources
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
Jill Waterhouse, 'Canberra, Early days at the Causeway', 1992 (p.99)
The Canberra Times - 11 January 1943
NAA RecordSearch - Series A6770 (Service Cards for Petty Officers and Men, 1911-1970)
HMAS Nestor, www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/ships/nestor.html