Cyril Strahan PARRY

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PARRY, Cyril Strahan

Service Numbers:	3, T47
Enlisted:	21 October 1914, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	Army Pay Corps (AIF)
Born:	Strahan, Tasmania, Australia, 28 October 1892
Home Town:	Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Public Servant
Died:	Repatriation Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 21 November 1947, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania North Wall of Remembrance Arch 1 Niche 13
Memorials:	Deloraine War Memorial

World War 1 Service

21 Oct 1914:	Involvement 3, Army Pay Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1914:	Embarked 3, Army Pay Corps (AIF), HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
21 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 3, Army Pay Corps (AIF), Melbourne, Vic.
11 Nov 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant

World War 2 Service

1 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Captain, T47
1 Oct 1945:	Discharged Lieutenant Colonel

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Mr Thomas Stanton and Mrs Bertha Louisa Parry of Railway Station, Deloraine, Tas.

The funeral of Lieut.-Col. Cyril Strahan Parry, who died at the Repatriation Hospital Hobart on Friday at the age of 55, took place at Cornelian Bay on Saturday. Services were conducted by Rev. T. E. Doyle. St. George's Parish Church, Battery Point. The chief mourners were Messrs. P. E. Parry (brother), G. A. Green and F. Willis-., Launceston (sons in-law), R. J. Pullen (Launceston), G. H. Scott (Hobart), C. Stephens (Launceston) and C. Cunningham (brothers-in.law).
The secretary of the Hobart R.S.L. sub-branch (Mr. E. W. Lacey) conducted the returned sol diers' service at the crematorium, where the Last Post was sounded.
Lieut.-Col. Parry joined the defence Department in 1910 and left Australia with the first contingent in 1914, serving overseas as a pay master. He rejoined the Defence Department on return from active service, He became District Finance Officer in 1939 and at the out break of the last war was promoted to litutenant-colonel and was appointed to command the Australian Pay-Corps in Tasmania.
He retired in 1945 because of ill health.
He leaves a widow and four daughters--Mesdames F. H. Williams (Launceston) G. A. Green (Hobart), Misses Joan and Helen Parry, The funeral arrangements were by Clark Bros. Hobart.

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