Alfred George BRADY

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BRADY, Alfred George

Service Numbers:	W7130, WX10091
Enlisted:	25 September 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Dongara, Western Australia, 19 January 1914
Home Town:	Midland Junction, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grape Picker
Died:	Bunbury, Western Australia, 29 December 1982, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

25 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W7130, 11 Infantry Battalion AMF
13 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX10091
26 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX10091

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Alfred George Brady (Service No:WX10091) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 25 September 1940 and was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion when he Discharged to enlist in the AIF on 13 December 1940. Private Brady served in New Guinea and Timor and was attached to 2/2 Australian Independent Coy at Discharge on 26 October 1945. Siblings Ernest, Neil and Bill also served in WWII.

Born in 1914 in Dongara WA, Alfred was the eldest of twelve children of William George Brady (b1882 in Dongara, WA) and Hannah Maud Brandis (b1905 in Greenough, WA). William (a Labourer) and Hannah married in 1913 in Dongara WA and lived in Greenough where William was a Farm Hand before settling in Midland Junction by the mid 1920s. William worked as a Labourer and Fuel Man.

Alfred was a Grape Picker in the Swan Valley region of WA when in 1939 he married first wife Evelyn Maud Turner (b1915 in Blackwood, WA). Following their Divorce in 1944, Alfred remarried in 1957 to Alma May Towie (nee Turner; b1912 in Bridgetown, WA). Discharged from the Army in 1945, Alfred worked as a Repairer with WAGR in Manmerring (Wheatbelt), Wongan Hills and Donnybrook. Alfred died in 1982 and Alma in 1991.

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