BRIAN, Edmund
| Service Number: | 136910 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 September 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units |
| Born: | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 29 August 1925 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Marist Brothers, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Accountants' Clerk |
| Died: | Leukemia, 30 June 1987, aged 61 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 136910, RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units | |
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| 2 Apr 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 136910, RAAF Personnel / Embarkation / Holding Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Philomena van Rijswijk
Mum and Dad met at the Lavender Bay Catholic Youth Organistaion run by Father Stone. Dad had grown up in and around North Sydney. When Mum met him, he lived in Lord Street. It was a big family. Dad's little sister died when she was twelve from tuberculosis.
He must have been 19 when he enlisted in the Air Force. He was a radio operator. He didn't really talk to us about his experiences, but, as an old man, he was phobic about crocodiles. Dad was diagnosed with a mental illness and with PTSD from the war when I was in my early teens. He died when he was only 62. He had been living with his younger brother, who looked after him, making sure he took his medications etc.
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