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Leading Aircraftman Orlando Rodda (Service No:449396) initially served in the Air Training Corps (ATC) from 22 August 1942 as a Cadet attached to 1 Wing HQ 17 Squadron, before enlisting as an Aircraftman II at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 24 March 1944. Described in his RAAF Interview as 'Cheerful and bright. Very quick and smart' (NAA), he was promoted to LAC on 21 August 1944. In 1945 LAC Rodda was attached to Special Air Crew Camps at Bamera and Renmark, and was Discharged on 11 June 1945.

Landy was youngest of three children, born in Thorpdale, Victoria in 1926 to Benjamin Angwin Rodda (b1889 in Daylesford, Victoria) and Margaret Lock (b1887 in Melbourne, Victoria). Benjamin (a Farmer) and Margaret (a Dairy Farmer's daughter) were living in Thorpdale, where they married in 1916. Benjamin served in the AIF in WWI, and following his Discharge, he and Margaret lived in Trafalgar, Thorpdale and Sale where they raised their family and Benjamin was a Farmer. In the early 1940s the family moved to Melbourne, where Benjamin worked as a Boilermaker.

Landy completed High School in Sale - where he was awarded the RSL Sale scholarship on several occasions. Landy joined the State Savings Bank of Victoria and was a Junior Clerk in 1940 when he enlisted in the Air Training Corps. Following his Discharge from the RAAF, Landy returned to Melbourne and worked as a Bank Clerk with the State Savings Bank of Victoria. He lived with his parents in Melbourne until the mid 1960s, when he was promoted to Bank Manager in Violet Town. By 1972 he was living in Warburton with Catherine Lesley Rodda (a Nursing Sister), and in 1977 he and Catherine were living in Yea - Landy was a Bank Manager and Catherine a Nursing Sister. Landy died in 2011.