Byron John SHELLEY

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SHELLEY, Byron John

Service Number:	31989
Enlisted:	27 July 1942
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Waratah, Tasmania, Australia, 9 September 1916
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Winnaleah State School, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Brewery Hand
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 26 April 1995, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania Area:Lawn Graves - Location: LYTHRUM - Number: 48
Memorials:	Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

27 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 31989
16 Oct 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 31989

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman Byron John Shelley (Service No:31989) enlisted in the RAAF as an Aircraftman I on 27 July 1943. He was an LAC attached to 1 Operational Training Unit when he was Discharged on 16 October 1945.

Born in 1916 at Waratah in Tasmania, Byron was the eldest of seven children of John Prince Shelley (b1893 at Moorina, Tasmania) and Mary Burke (b1897 at Turner's Marsh, Tasmania). John (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1915 in Launceston, Tasmania - John was the son of an Anglican Minister and Mary came from a devout and strict Catholic family who refused to speak with her for several years following her marriage. John and Mary lived in Waratah, Ringarooma, Winnaleah, Launceston and Scottsdale where they raised their family and John worked as a Labourer.

Byron was a Labourer in Launceston in 1939 when he married Winsome Barrett (b1920 in Launceston, Tasmania) and was a Brewery Hand with Tasmanian Brweries in 1942 when he enlisted in the RAAF. Byron and Winsome settled Launceston where they raised their family and Byron worked as a Plasterer. Byron died in 1995 and Winsome in 1999.

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