HILLIER, Sydney
| Service Number: | 77737 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Radar Stations (RAAF) |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 August 1910 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Petrie Terrace Boys State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Barman/Steward |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 26 March 1974, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 77737 | |
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| 6 Feb 1943: | Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, Radar Stations (RAAF), 36 Radar Station Hammond Island | |
| 26 Feb 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 77737 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Sydney Hillier (Service No:7737) enlisted in the RAAF on 6 August 1942 as an Aircraftman 1 attached to No 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School (BAGS) Evans Head - mustered as a Guard. On 6 February 1943 he was promoted to LAC and was attached to 36 Radar Station Hammond Island. LAC Hillier was attached to 3 Stores Depot at Discharge on 26 February 1946.
Born in 1910 in Brisbane QLD, Syd was a Soda Dispenser in Brisbane in 1934 when he married Joyce Olga Donnelly (b1911 in Brisbane, QLD) - Joyce was a Waitress. Syd and Joyce settled in Brisbane, QLD where Syd worked as a Barman/Steward before enlisting in the RAAF in 1942. Following his Discharge in 1946, Syd returned to Brisbane where he worked as a Barman, and following Joyce's death in 1947, Syd remarried in the early 1950s - Ellen Josephine Reuter (nee Wilson; b1905 in Brisbane, QLD) - Ellen was working as a Packer. Syd and Ellen lived in Brisbane where Syd worked as a Barman, Labourer and French Polisher. Syd died in 1974 and Ellen in 1986.
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