HAGENSON, Claude Albert
| Service Number: | 65851 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Benoni, South Africa, 7 May 1910 |
| Home Town: | Bondi Junction , New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer / Bus Driver |
| Died: | Heart Disease, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 25 July 1965, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW RC29K - Roman Catholic FM 29K, Position 1633 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 65851 | |
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| 3 Dec 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 65851 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by ALAN HAGENSON
Claude was the son of Charles Oscar HAGENSON and Margaret Ann MONAGHAN. They married in NZ and went to Johannesburg, SA, where they raised four young boys; Charles, Joseph, Alfred and Claude. After their father died in 1914 in Boksburg, Sth Africa, Margaret brought the boys back to NZ. Their grandfather, Anders HAGENSON, raised the three elder boys in NZ and Margaret brought Claude, aged 4, to live with her sister, Josephine DOHENY, nee MONAGHAN at Paddington, NSW. Claude was educated at Westmead Boys Home in Western Sydney, until he ran away at the age of 16. He came back to live with his mother and he worked at the Wentworth Hotel Sydney, where his mother was a house maid, as a compositor.
At the age of 22, he married Mena ROWLEY, a descendant of Cpt Thomas ROWLEY, d.1806, NSW Rgt, and commandant of Norfolk Is.
They raised 7 children at 45 Rawson St, Bondi Junction Sydney and he died at the early age of 54.
Mena moved to Southport later and died there in 1991.
Claude and Mena were my loving parents