HORNSBY, David Stanley
| Service Number: | WX7615 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/13th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Boyanup, Western Australia, 29 August 1916 |
| Home Town: | Boyanup, Capel, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 24 September 1981, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Boyanup Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Feb 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7615, 2nd/13th Field Ambulance, Ex Fremantle to Middle East per US9 | |
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| 10 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7615 | |
| 9 May 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7615, 2nd/13th Field Ambulance, ex Middle East per SS Melbourne Star | |
| 23 Nov 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7615 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Dave was the youngest of three children of Edward Argentine Hornsby (b1887 in Lillimur, Victoria) and Ada Mary Elizabeth Scott (b1893 in Melbourne, Victoria). Edward (a Farmer in Wongan Hills, WA) and Ada married in in Boyanup, WA in 1912. Dave was two months of age when his father died in 1916. Ada remarried in 1922.
Dave worked as a Labourer in Boyanup, WA and in August 1940 enlisted in the Australian Army. He served in the Middle East (March to June 1941) as a Private (Service No:WX7615) and was attached to 2/13 Field Ambulance Corps 8 Division when he was (Medical) Discharged in December 1943.
Dave was a Labourer in Boyanup in 1949 when he married Fay Scott (nee Herbert; b1921 in Perth, WA) in Perth WA. Dave and Fay settled in Boyanup where Dave worked as a Labourer and Boiler Attendant. He died in 1981 and Fay in 1994.
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