BRADY, William Frederick
| Service Numbers: | W97048, 84806 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 October 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | 13 Training Battalion |
| Born: | Midland Junction, Western Australia, 31 December 1925 |
| Home Town: | Midland Junction, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Midland Junction Central School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Mahogany Creek, Mundaring, Western Australia , 25 May 2013, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-587460-B8X8Q5 KC00190268 KARRAKATTA CEMETERY Cremation |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W97048, 13 Training Battalion | |
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| 30 Jun 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W97048, 13 Training Battalion | |
| 20 May 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 84806 | |
| 29 Apr 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 84806 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman William Frederick Brady (Service No:84806) enlisted in the RAAF on 20 May 1944 as an Aircraftman I (mustered as a General Hand). He had previously served with the ACMF (Private; Service No:W97048) attached to 13 Training Battalion and was Discharged for having given an inaccurate birthdate on his Attestation Form. LAC Brady was attached to 6 Radio Installation and Maintenance Unit at Discharge on 29 April 1946. Siblings Alfred, Ernest and Neil served in WWII.
Born in 1925 in Midland WA, Bill was the seventh of twelve children of William George Brady (b1882 in Dongara, WA) and Hannah Maud Brandis (b1895 in Greenough, WA). William Snr (a Labourer) and Hannah married in 1913 in Dongara, WA and lived in Greenough where William worked as a Farm Hand before settling in Midland Junction in the 1920s. William worked as a Labourer and Fuel Man.
Bill was a Farm Hand in Midland Junction before enlisting, and in 1946 in Midland WA married his first wife Stella Ruby Watters (b1926 in Sawyers Valley, WA) - Stella was working in Midland as a Waitress. Bill and Stella settled in Midland Junction where Bill worked as a Fitter's Assistant at the Midland Railway Workshops from 1947 to 1970. In 1982 in Kalamunda WA, following his divorce from Stella, Bill remarried to Joan Margaret Watters (nee Selkirk; b1937 in Perth, WA). Bill and Joan settled at Mahogany Creek in Mundaring WA where Bill worked as a Welder. Joan died in 1995 and Bill in 2013.
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