SEILER, Ernest Henry Nelson
Service Number: | 26389 |
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Enlisted: | 27 April 1940, Adelaide, South Australia |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Radio Development and Installation Unit (RAAF) |
Born: | Loxton, South Australia, 23 August 1918 |
Home Town: | Loxton (SA), Loxton Waikerie, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farm hand |
Died: | Natural causes (cancer), Fitzroy, Victoria, 13 September 1991, aged 73 years |
Cemetery: |
Arthurs Creek Cemetery, Victoria |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
27 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 26389, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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27 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 26389 | |
28 Apr 1940: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 26389 | |
14 Nov 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 26389, Radio Development and Installation Unit (RAAF) |
My Dad
He was a great father aswell as a fantastic father inlaw to leonie and a fabulous grandfather to my children that had the privalidge of knowing him with only one draw back of being a collingwood supporter. My dad was a real country boy at heart and we seen each other more often when leonie and I moved to Heathcote than we did when we only lived 10 kilometers apart. Leonie and my father were great freinds from the first time I took my then girlfreind home to meet my parents and from then on were always cheeky to each other. I will always remember rabbiting with mydad and now looking back he did teach me so much with out me even knowing it especially about country life and living of the land. I will always miss and love you dad and can only wish our last two chidren could have met you .
Submitted 23 July 2021 by Colin Seiler
My wonderful Dad
Ernest Henry Nelson Seiler married Constance Ruby Anderson on 14th December 1940 only 3 months after he met her in South Melbourne. They had 7 children, Maurice, Marion, Robert, Dorothy, James, Colin and William (Bill). After being demobed form the RAAF he went to work at the Australian Paper Mills in Melbourne. He stayed in that job until they closed in 1968 finishing up as a supervisor. He then went on to become a cleaner at Crestknit in Collingwood and did this job until he retired in 1989. He passed away on September 13th 1991 at St Voncents Hospital in Fitzroy and his ashes are at the Arthurs Creek Cemetary in Victoria. A wonderful man a great father who I still miss every single day
Submitted 17 November 2017 by Dot Andrews