Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Alice, who preferred to be called "Bobbi" was my mother whose maiden name was LITTLEJOHN. She joined the Army and was apparently a driver. Her service duration was short because she married David Ritchie BERTRAM and as a result had to elect discharge.

After the war she married my father, Alvin Ernest HENRY (Ex RAAF 3512) (Joe) and had two children, Robin Charles HENRY born in 1947 (me) (Ex RAAF A112784) and my brother Kendall Stuart HENRY who was born in 1961 and died unexpectedly in 1976.

My parents were married until 1973 when my father died. After his demise she moved to the Gold Coast where she lived until around 1988 when she moved to Bundaberg, Queensland and later to live with my wife, children and me at Alice Springs in 1992 where she live in a "Granny Flat" with us until her demise in 1995.

Her body was cremated and her ashes laid with those of my brother Kendall at the Nerang Lawn Cemetery, Gold Coast as was her wish. Her brother William LITTLEJOHN served in the Army during WWII in Papua and New Guinea.

Just recently I applied for her medals that she had never applied for and received them from the Defence Department.

She was a wonderful mother with whom my wife, children and I had a very good relationship, but I could never get her to talk much about her early years.