BROMLEY, William James
| Service Number: | W235574 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 December 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | North Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 April 1900 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Truck Driver |
| Died: | Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 24 September 1990, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cooktown Cemetery, Queensland With the ashes of his brother Ernie (Ernest Albert Bromley) |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Dec 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W235574 | |
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| 1 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W235574 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant William James Bromley (Service No:W235574) enlisted in the ACMF on 5 December 1939, and was posted as a Private to Motor Transport Depot Claremont AASC - classfied Driver. Promoted to Corporal on 17 June 1940, then to Sergeant on 20 September 1941, he served with 122 Reserves Motor Transport Coy and 1 Australian Base Depot Perth, and was attached to WA Area Workshop at Discharge on 1 May 1945.
Bill was born in North Fremantle, Western Australia in 1900, eldest of six children of William Patrick Bromley (b1875 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Ann (Annie) Wells (b1881 at Barrys Reef via Blackwood, Victoria). William (a Labourer) and Annie married in 1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia where they settled and raised their family, and William was a Cordial Maker. In the mid 1920s William and Annie moved to Muckinbudin via Toodyay, where William was a Farmer until the early 1930s. William and Annie then lived in Melbourne - where William was a Labourer - and moved to Sydney in the mid 1940s, where William was a Traveller.
Bill worked in Muckinbudin via Toodyay, Western Australia as a Teamster, and in 1926 in Perth married his first wife Patricia Manning (b1922) - Patricia was working in Bencubbin via Toodyay as a Waitress. Bill and Patricia settled in Perth, where Bill worked as a Bus Driver and Labourer, and they raised their son. In 1939 when Bill enlisted in the Army, he was a Truck Driver in Perth. In 1945 when Bill was Discharged from the Army, he and Patricia had separated - Bill lived with his brother Arthur in Perth. By 1949 Bill had moved to Melbourne, where he was living with his brother Ernie and working as a Storeman when he remarried to June Iris Campbell (b1922 in Victoria). Bill and June lived in Melbourne - Bill was a Driver - and divorced in the early 1960s. Bill worked as a Driver until retirement in the late 1960s, then lived with his brother Arthur at Diamond Creek. Following Arthur's death in the mid 1980s, Bill moved to Cairns, QLD where he lived with his brother Ernie until his death in 1990.
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