BAYLY, Ronald Elwin
| Service Numbers: | V64272, S21528, DX705 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 3 January 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia , 30 September 1918 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Builder's Labourer |
| Died: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 18 June 2000, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Mildura, VIC | |
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| 3 Jan 1940: | Involvement Private, V64272 | |
| 3 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64272, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 3 Mar 1941: | Involvement Private, S21528 | |
| 3 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Torrens Hall, SA | |
| 3 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S21528 | |
| 7 Feb 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S21528 | |
| 7 Feb 1942: | Discharged | |
| 8 Feb 1942: | Involvement Private, DX705 | |
| 8 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, DX705 | |
| 8 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Darwin, NT | |
| 25 Mar 1946: | Discharged | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V64272, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of the four brothers (Richard, Lenard, Ronald and Albert) who served in WWII, Private Ronald Elwin Bayly (Service Nos:V64272/S21528/DX705) served in the ACMF from 3 January 1940 to 7 February 1942 as a Private - initially in Victoria with 7 Battalion and then in South Australia with 27 Battalion. Private Bayly was in Darwin NT in December 1942 when he Discharged on 7 February 1942 'having enlisted in an expeditionary force for service outside the Commonwealth' (NAA). Private Bayly - graded Cook - was attached to 2/166 General Transport Coy, 2/48 Australian Transport Platoon, Australian Army Catering Corps and 2/4 Pioneer Battaion, and served in British North Borneo. Private Bayly embarked from Townsville for Morotai en route for British North Borneoon board the David C Shanks en route for British North Borneo, returning to Sydney on 2 February 1946. Private Bayly was attached to 2/4 Pioneer Battalion at Discharge on 25 March 1946. Two of his older brothers (Richard and Lenard) served with 8 Division Ammunition Sub Park and were taken as PoWs by the Japanese in Singapore.
Ron was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1918, third of four children (sons) of William Robert Bayly (b1887 in Yelta via Moonta, South Australia) and Myrtle Edith Briggs (b1882 in Inkerman, South Australia). William (a Teacher in Adelaide) and Myrtle married in Prospect in 1910, and moved to Broken Hill in New South Wales where they lived from 1914 to 1919, and William was a Contractor and Salvage Salesman (Wiehert and Bayly). The family returned to South Australia, and settled at Two Wells via Wakefield, where William worked as a Mason.
Ron was working in Mildura, Victoria as a Builder's Labourer when he enlisted in the Army in 1940. Discharged in March 1946, in September in Norwood he married Lily Daphne Roberts (b1925 in Meningie, South Australia). Ron worked as a Labourer in Melbourne in the late 1940s, and died in Ballarat in 2000. Lily died in 2008 in Allendale via Creswick in Victoria.
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