Edith Myrtle (Edie) RICHARDS

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RICHARDS, Edith Myrtle

Service Number:	94678
Enlisted:	18 February 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, 23 March 1919
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salewoman
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 10 July 2013, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

18 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 94678
23 Jan 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 94678

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Edith Myrtle Richards (Service No:94678) enlisted (under maiden name Burton) in the WAAAF on 18 February 1942 as an Aircraftwoman I at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth - mustered as Storekeeper, re mustered as Equipment Assistant and attached to WAAAF Training Section Pearce. On 1 January 1943, Cororal Burton was attached to 4 Stores Depot Maylands, and at Discharge on 23 January 1945 was Sergeant Richards attached to 4 Stores Depot Maylands. Husband Basil Richards served in the Army (Private; Service No:WX35193).

Edie was born in Subiaco in Perth, Western Australia in 1919, third of four children (daughters) of Percival (Percy) Anderson Burton (b1881 in Ballarat, Victoria) and his second wife Catherine (Katie) Grace Powers (b1891 in Warracknabeal, Victoria). Percy moved to Perth in the early 1900s, and worked in Subiaco as a Painter and Collector. He and Katie married in Beverley WA in 1914, and settled in Subiaco where they raised their family and Percy worked as a Collector, Glazier and Labourer.

Edie worked in Perth as a Saleswoman for Harris Scarfe & Sandovers, and was in the WAAAF in 1944 in Perth when she married Basil Frederick Richards (b1913 in Karridale, WA) - Basil, a Newsagent in Bunbury before enlisting in the Army, was a Private (Service No:WX35193). Edie and Basil divorced in 1955, and both remarried - Edie in 1955 to Reginald (Reg) Norman Johnson (b1918 in Adelaide, South Australia) - Reg served in the Army (WX21004), and he and Edie settled in Bridgetown WA, where Reg was a Farmer. Edie and Reg moved to Perth in the early 1970s - Reg worked as a Bus Driver - and divorced in the mid 1970s (Reg remarried). Edie died in 2013.

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