RADFORD, Edward
| Service Number: | N101672 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
| Born: | The Forth, Tasmania, Australia, 2 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 16 May 1982, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 9 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N101672 | |
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| 26 Jul 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N101672, 11 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Edward Radford (Service No:N101672) served with the ACMF 11th Garrison Battalion from 9 January 1941 to 26 July 1943. Private Radford had served in WWI (Private; Service No:2893) with 26th and 15th Infantry Battalions.
Born in Blyth Tasmania, Edward was the thirteenth of sixteen children of George Radford (b1849 in Westbury, Tasmania) and Elizabeth Jane McMahon (b1853 in Railton, Tasmania). George (a Farmer) and Elizabeth married in 1870 in Port Sorell and lived in Don, Sulphur Creek, Kindred and Blyth where George was a Farmer.
Edward worked as a Farmer in Blyth before his Service in WWI, and was a Labourer in 1924 when, in Zeehan, he married Edna May Horsham (b1897 in Zeehan, Tasmania) - Edna was a Teacher. The couple settled in Sydney NSW where Edward worked as a Labourer for the Department of Main Roads. Edna died in 1968 and Edward in 1982.
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