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Air Crew II Albert James Saggers enlisted in the RAAF on 24 May 1941 and by August was a Leading Aircraftman. In his Attestation Papers (NAA) he was described as 'A happy natured, rugged, hard working type'. On 2 April 1942 he was Mustered as Sergeant with No 100 Squadron. After serving with 18 and 14 Squadrons, Flight Sergeant Saggers was attached to 49 Operational Base Unit when he was Discharged on 21 December 1945. Half brothers Donald (LAC: Service No:84507) and Colin (Corporal; Service No:45813) also served in the RAAF and father Aubrey William Saggers (Private; Service No:6813) and step father Joseph Mervyn Woods (Corporal; Service No:1628) served in WWI.

Born in 1915 in Bunbury WA, Bert was the only child of Aubrey William Saggers (b1893 in Ringarooma, Tasmania) and Muriel Brittain (b1893 in Bunbury, WA). Aubrey (a Butcher) and Muriel married in 1915 in Bunbury WA. Aubrey had served with the 86th Infantry in Bunbury for three years prior to enlisting in the AIF in 1915. Following Aubrey's death in England in 1917, Muriel remarried in 1920 to Joseph Mervyn Woods and had three children with him. The family settled in Bunbury WA where Joseph died in 1926.

Bert was working as a Labourer/Miner in Kalgoorlie WA in 1941 when he enlisted in the RAAF. He had started work at fourteen years of age as a Farm Hand in Bridgetown, WA and had served with the Militia from 1930 to 1935 with 10th Light Horse Regiment (Trooper; Service No:240821). 

In 1936 Bert was a Truck Driver in Kalgoorlie WA when he married Winifred Doris Underwood (b1913 in Kalgoorlie, WA). Winifred died in 1943 and following his Discharge, Bert settled in Bunbury WA where he worked as a Truck Driver. In 1949 he remarried and he and Amy lived in Glen Iris in Bunbury where Bert was a Truck Driver and Salesman, In the early 1960's they moved to Dennison via Dongara WA where Bert was a Storekeeper, until the mid 1970s when they relocated to Balcatta in Perth, WA where Bert was a Fisherman. Bert died in 1986.