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Australia

William Roland Bacon, known as "Bill", was a special man to his Family.

His journey began when he was born in Annandale, Sydney in 1922 to a recently widowed woman, named Ethel Wilkinson. At the age of 5 years, he was adopted by Harold Keith and Elizabeth Mary Bacon, who reared, and educated him in Mortdale, Sydney.

His electrical apprenticeship was interrupted by World War 2, when he joined the Royal Australian Airforce. Bill married the year the War ended and completed his Electrical Apprenticeship.

He joined the New South Wales, Electrical Commission and worked at Bunnerong Power Station in Sysney's south, then Tullerwarra on the south coast of New South Wales.

In the fifties, he too his growing family to Cabramurra and worked on he Snowy Mountains Scheme, where he became the first person to switch the powerinto the States Power grid during trials before the Official opening.

in the early sixties, he transferred tp Wallerawang Power Station in the Blue Mountains and was an active member of the South Bowenfels Bush Fire Brigade until his retirement and moved to Bribie Island.

Bill and his wife Gwen, raised five children, who produced ten grandchildren, and ten great grandchildren.