Person

Joyce, John ( - 1992)

Born: New South Wales, Australia
Died: 16 March 1992
Occupation: Educator

Summary

John Joyce served in the RAAF Meteorological Service during the Second World War. He spent 40 years with the New South Wales Department of Education as teacher, headmaster, school inspector, staff inspector and was Director of Education for the North Coast Region of New South Wales. He researched the history of the RAAF Meteorological Service and his work was published posthumously in 1993 as "The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service" in Metarch Papers No. 5 (Bureau of Meteorology).

Published resources

Books

Joyce, John, The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 1993), 119 pp. Details

Resources

'Joyce, John (-19920316)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477064. Details

Resource Sections

Joyce, J., 'The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0203.html. Details

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