Russell Bertram WINDHAM

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WINDHAM, Russell Bertram

Service Number:	23889
Enlisted:	9 January 1940, Melbourne, VIC
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born:	Bute, South Australia, Australia, 15 November 1920
Home Town:	Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Snowtown and Unley High Schools, South Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birkenhead HMAS Sydney (II) D48 Memorial, Black Forest Parkside West Methodist Church Roll of Honor WW2, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Mosman Bradleys Head HMAS Sydney Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Snowtown Memorial Hospital Honour Roll WW2

World War 2 Service

9 Jan 1940:	Involvement 23889, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
9 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Melbourne, VIC
9 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 23889, Melbourne, Vic.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Ethelbert Windhan and Edith May (nee Hall) Windham of Glenelg, SA; brother of Kenneth Charles Windham who served in the RAAF, Bardsley Clement Windham who served in the RAAF, and Cassy Blanche Windham

At the time of his death he was serving in HMAS Sydney as a Telegraphist

Ord. Telegraphist Russell Bertram Windham, 21, was employed as a clerk in a city store before he enlisted on January 9, 1940. He was trained at the Flinders Naval Depot, and joined the Sydney last January. He was educated at the Snowtown and Unley High Schools. He was a son of Mr and Mrs Ethelbert Windham, of Snowtown, and a twin brother of Miss C. Windham, of Adelaide.

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