John Lewis Curtis of Hunter St, in Malvern, VIC Australia was born in 1913 in Brighton to Herbert George Owen Curtis and Margaret Winifred (Clancy) Curtis. He had a brother Herbert Agustine Curtis. He married Carmel Mary Hansen, and had children Mary Elizabeth Curtis and Antoinettte Margaret Curtis. John Curtis died at age 58 years old on July 20, 1972 at Prince Henry's Hospital in South Melbourne, and was buried on July 24, 1972 at Burwood Cemetery in Burwood.
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