Norman Anderson BYRNE

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BYRNE, Norman Anderson

Service Numbers:	WX33418, W7730
Enlisted:	1 March 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	54th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 February 1909
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shearer and Truck Driver
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 13 September 1985, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Memorials:

1 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX33418
25 Sep 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, W7730, Camp Staff
26 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX33418, Camp Staff
29 Jun 1943:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, 54th Infantry Battalion
22 Mar 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX33418

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Norman Anderson Byrne (Service No:WX33418) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:W7730) from 15 December 1941 to 25 September 1942 with 11th Infantry Battalion and 2/2 Australian Guard Regiment. He was a Sergeant attached to Camp Staff Bellevue when he transferred to the AIF on 26 September 1942 and was attached to 54th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 22 March 1945. Older siblings Brennan (Bernie) and Tasman (Tassie) served with the British Forces in WWII - Bernie was KiA in Egypt, and Andrew served in the AIF.

The youngest of eleven children, Norman was born in 1909 in Melbourne, Victoria to Andrew John Joseph Byrne (b1885 in Dublin, Ireland) and Mary (Cecilia) Elizabeth Kitchen (b1868 in Lincolnshire, England). Andrew (a Publisher's Deliverer in 1881) and Cecilia met in Melbourne, Victoria around 1889 (they married in London, England in 1910) and lived in Melbourne, Brisbane QLD, Canada and Sydney NSW and in England - Andrew was a Manufacturer's Agent. Andrew was in Melbourne, Victoria when he died in 1911, and Cecilia remained in England where she remarried in 1929.

Norman worked as a Barman in Perth, where he was a Shearer and Truck Driver in 1941. He married in 1943 in Perth - Roma Patricia Drummond (b1920 in Northam, WA) - Roma was a Typist in Perth. Following his Discharge, Norman and Roma settled in Perth where they raised their family and Norman worked as a Shearing Contractor. Norman died in 1985 and Roma in 2007.

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