Roy Edward SELWAY

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SELWAY, Roy Edward

Service Number:	PA2269
Enlisted:	9 September 1941, Port Adelaide
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Torrens (Depot) / HMAS Encounter (Shore)
Born:	North Adelaide, South Australia , 9 July 1919
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sheet Metal Worker
Died:	Parkside, South Australia, 25 April 1967, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

9 Sep 1941:	Involvement PA2269, HMAS Torrens (Depot) / HMAS Encounter (Shore)
9 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Port Adelaide
9 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA2269
2 Nov 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Roy was the youngest child of Alexander (Alec) Roy Selway (b1897 in St Peter's, South Australia) and Dorothy Adelaide Ethel Pierce (b1898 in Kensington, South Australia). Alec (a Butcher) and Dorothy married in 1917 in Adelaide, SA where they settled and Alec worked as a Butcher.

Roy was a Sheet Metal Worker when he married Gladys Vyona Stenoff (b1925 in Adelaid, SA) in 1941 in Adelaide, SA. Roy enlisted in the RAN in September 1941 as a Stoker II (Service No:PA2269) on HMAS Cerberus. He was a Stoker attached to HMAS Torrens when he was Discharged in November 1945.

Roy died in 1967.

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