Henry Edward BRIGHT

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BRIGHT, Henry Edward

Service Numbers:	W22425, W15897
Enlisted:	7 January 1942
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 23 June 1909
Home Town:	Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 7 March 1992, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

7 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, W22425, 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
9 Nov 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, W22425, 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
10 Nov 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, W15897
25 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, W15897

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Henry was the second of eight children of Frederick King Bright (b1876 in Gawler, South Australia) and Susan Annie Paine (b1884 in Lyndoch, South Australia). Frederick - a Miner - and Susan married in 1906 in Boulder, Western Australia where they raised their family before moving to Perth.

Henry worked as a Storekeeper and Ore Treatment Hand in the Kalgoorlie Region and in 1935 married Elizabeth (Betty) Mary Margaret Mayman (b1906 in Kalgoorlie, WA) - Betty was a School Teacher. In the early 1940s Henry and Betty moved to Narrogin, WA where Henry was a Farmer when he enlisted in the ACMF in 1943. His Attestation Form states that he has no right hand or right eye. Henry served as a Staff Sergeant (Service Nos:W15897/W22425) with 11th, 12th and 9th Battalions VDC and was Discharged in February 1946.

Henry and Betty returned to Kalgoorlie where Henry worked as a Mine Foreman before retiring and moving to Perth in 1968. Henry died in 1992 and Betty in 1995.

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