CRITTENDEN, Phillip Garry
| Service Number: | B/328 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 April 1909 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Fatal car accident, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 27 May 1950, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, B/328 | |
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| 8 Nov 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, B/328 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Able Seaman Phillip Garry Crittenden (Service No:B/328) enlisted in the RAN on 11 July 1940 on board HMAS Penguin IV. He was attached to HMAS Magnetic (shore based Naval Depot in Townsville, QLD) at Discharge on 8 November 1945.
Born in 1909 in Brisbane QLD, Phillip was the only child of Stanley Phillip Crittenden (b1883 in Essex, England) and Florence Bernel Cumming (b1881 in Dalby, QLD). Stanley (a Traveller) and Florence married in 1908 in Sydney, NSW. Stanley had arrived in Sydney NSW with his parents and siblings in 1893 on board the Thermopylae. Stanley and Florence lived in Brisbane, Ipswich and Bondi NSW where Stanley was a Salesman, Picture Theatre Manager, Manager of a Film Exchange and Audiometrist.
Phillip worked as a Printer in Brisbane QLD where, in 1933 he married Elsie Ivy Schrgae (b1909 in Brisbane, QLD). In 1940, following Elsie's death in 1936, Phillip remarried - to Winifred Hoey (b1908 in Durham, England) - Winifred had immigrated in 1911 with her parents and siblings, arriving in Brisbane, QLD on board the Ayrshire. Phillip and Winifred settled in Brisbane, QLD where Phillip resumed work as a Printer following his Discharge from the Navy. In 1950, Phillip was crossing the street after exiting a picture theatre when he was fatally struck by a car and died in the Ambulance en route to hospital. Winifred was left with three young children - she died in 2002.