BLACK, Ivy Ada
| Service Number: | NF440693 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 October 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 26 September 1925 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Catholic |
| Occupation: | Sales Assistant |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 16 April 2009, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 22 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF440693 | |
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| 24 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF440693 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Penny Black
Ivy was born in 1925 and spent her early years at George Street North, The Rocks in Sydney. Her father, Bert, was born in Bristol, England and sailed to Sydney where he enlisted in the 1st Battalion AIF. He served as an Anzac Digger in the battlefields of France and returned to Sydney to marry his wife Ivy Florence, a fourth generation Irish Catholic girl from Sydney.
Ivy Ada moved to Earlwood with her family and attended the local Catholic School. She enjoyed Sydney life with many cousins and friends and left school to work as a sales assistant at Grace Brothers. Ivy enlisted in 1942 in the Army. She met Roger in Sydney, married and moved to Adelaide to live with his family until the war ended.
Roger and Ivy moved back to Sydney after the war where he completed a PhD from the University of Sydney and became a botanist like his grandfather. They built a home in Griffith, had five children and also lived in QLD, WA and the NT. Ivy settled back in Adelaide from WA in 1974 and spent her later years there devoted to the Australian Labour Party and her grandchildren.
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