Lawrence Hubert (Lal) DWYER

Lawrence Hubert (Lal) DWYER 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?

DWYER, Lawrence Hubert

Service Number:	56338
Enlisted:	25 May 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	No. 6 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Strath Creek, Victoria, Australia, 17 July 1901
Home Town:	Moama, Riverina, New South Wales
Schooling:	Glenrowan Primary School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Storekeeper
Died:	Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 5 September 1959, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Moama Cemetery, New South Wales
Memorials:	Echuca War Memorial

World War 2 Service

25 May 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 56338
12 Aug 1942:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 56338, No. 6 Squadron (RAAF), embarked Sydney for Horn Island en route for New Guinea
20 Sep 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 56338

Help us honour Lawrence Hubert Dwyer's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of seven siblings who served in WWII, Corporal Lawrence Hubert Dwyer (Service No:563338) enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 25 May 1942 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Storekeeper, re mustered as Equipment Assistant. Leading Aircraftman Dwyer served in New Guinea with No 6 Squadron, and was a Corporal attached to 11 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Discharge (on compassionate grounds) on 20 September 1945. Son Milton also served in the RAAF in WWII.

Lal was born at Strath Creek in Murrindindi, Victoria in 1901, eldest of ten children of Thomas Dwyer (b1874 at King Parrot Creek via Flowerdale, Victoria) and Flora Gillies McLean (b1883 at Riddell's Creek in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria). Thomas (a Farmer) and Flora married in 1901 in Melbourne, and lived in Yea, Strath Creek, Violet Town, Glenrowan and Wangaratta where they raised their family and Thomas was a Farmer, Wheat Buyer, General Commission Agent and Saw Mill Owner. Thomas had served with the 10th Light Horse Regiment, was a member of the Glenrowan Cricket Club and Captain of the Glenrowan Rifle Club.

In the 1920s Lal was a Labourer in Wodonga, and in 1924 in Melbourne married Rosa Henrietta Ehret (b1898 in Rutherglen, Victoria) - Rosa was working in Melbourne as a Typist. Lal and Rosa settled in Moama, New South Wales where they raised their family and Lal was a Sawmiller and, from the early 1930s Storekeeper (mixed perishable goods business). During his service in the RAAF, Rosa ran the store until Lal's Discharge. From the early 1950s Lal was a Clerk, and an Alderman until his death in 1959. Rosa died in 1998.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia