PRITCHARD, Robert
| Service Number: | 84425 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 February 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 28 January 1926 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Armadale, Western Australia, 10 November 2005, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 19 Feb 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 84425 | |
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| 8 Feb 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 84425 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Robert Pritchard (Service No:84425) enlisted in the RAAF on 19 February 1944 and was attached to 25 Squadron when he was Discharged on 8 February 1946.
The eldest of two sons of John Henry Bulloch (b1904 in Claremont, Fremantle. WA) and Elsie May Pritchard (b1906 in Yorkshire, England), Robert was born in 1926 in Perth WA. John (a Car Salesman) and Elsie married in 1925 in Perth WA and were Divorced in 1935. John remarried and served in the RAAF (Flight Lieutenant: MiD). Robert and his younger brother both took their mother's maiden name (Pritchard).
Following his Discharge from the RAAF, Robert was a Trainee in Perth WA and in 1952 married Joan. Robert and Joan lived in Rockingham and Leederville where Robert worked as a Carpenter and Wood Machinist before Divorcing in the early 1960s. Robert remarried in 1963 to Marie Frances Ashdown (nee White; b1920 in Perth, WA), Robert and Marie lived in Wembley before settling in Kalamunda in the 1970s - Robert was a Factory Inspector. Robert and Marie both died in 2005 - Marie in September and Robert in November.