Bernard Edward GLEW

Bernard Edward GLEW Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

GLEW, Bernard Edward

Service Number:	WX5025
Enlisted:	23 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Infantry Training Battalions
Born:	New Norcia, Western Australia, 17 March 1902
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 28 June 1974, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-223548-F8N1R3 KC00045567 Ashes dispersed at Karrakatta Cemetery
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

23 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5025, Infantry Training Battalions
21 Feb 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5025, Infantry Training Battalions

Help us honour Bernard Edward Glew's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Bernard Edward Glew (Service No:WX5025) enlisted in the Australian Army on 23 July 1940, and was attached to 13 Training Battalion when he was Discharged (Medical) on 21 February 1941.

Born in 1902 in New Norcia WA, Bernard was the fifth of seven children of Samuel Glew (b1861 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Margaret Crooks (b1864 in Melbourne, Victoria. Samuel (a Brickmaker) and Margaret married in 1884 in Melbourne, Victoria and by the late 1890s had moved with their family to Perth, WA.

In 1931 Bernard was a Labourer in Perth, WA when he married Hilda Winifred Whitehouse (b1909 in Yorkshire, England) - Hilda had immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1929, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Moreton Bay. The couple Divorced in 1938 and both remarried - Bernard in 1944 to Annie Charlotte McLeod (nee Williams; b1912 in Perth, WA) - Annie was a Widow. Bernard and Annie settled in Perth WA where Bernard worked as a Linesman, Dresser and Attendant. Bernard died in 1973 and Annie in 2006.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia