Jack Isidore SILVER

SILVER, Jack Isidore

Service Number: N96076
Enlisted: 24 January 1941, Bondi, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Australian Employment Company
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 24 October 1916
Home Town: Vaucluse, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: School Teacher
Died: Bloomfield Mental Hospital, Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 28 August 1994, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Orange General Cemetery, New South Wales
Jewish Section, Old, No. 1
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World War 2 Service

24 Jan 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N96076, Australian Employment Company, Bondi, NSW
3 Nov 1943: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N96076

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Biography contributed by Bradley Bliss

Son of Samson SILBERBERG (SILVER) and Fanny nee LENCZNER

Jack was a teacher and enlisted in January 1942 at Bondi in the 21 Labour Company and then the 20th Australian Employment Company.  In 1943 he was admitted to hospital with schizophrenia and discharged as medically unfit in November.

Jack spent many subsequent years in hospitals in Brisbane, Callan park Sydney and Bloomfield, Orange where he died on 28 August 1994 aged 77 years.