BAYLY, Albert Oswald
| Service Numbers: | S53601, SX29572 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Divisional Salvage Company |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia , 21 November 1920 |
| Home Town: | Windsor, Mallala, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Greenacres, Port Adelaide, South Australia, 16 May 2000, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Dublin War Memorial, South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, S53601 | |
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| 3 May 1943: | Involvement Private, SX29572 | |
| 3 May 1943: | Enlisted Keswick, SA | |
| 3 May 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX29572 | |
| 11 Jun 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX29572, 5th Divisional Salvage Company, embarked Brisbane for Port Moresby | |
| 6 Feb 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX29572, 5th Divisional Salvage Company, emplaned Nadzab for Amberley | |
| 1 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX29572 | |
| 1 May 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Youngest of the four brothers (Richard, Ronald, Lenard and Albert) who served in WWII, Private Albert Oswald Bayly (Service Nos:S53601/SX29572) initially served in the ACMF with 26 Salvage Section from 23 June 1942, transferring to the AIF on 3 May 1943. Private Bayly served in New Guinea with 5 Division Salvage Unit (11 June 1943 - 6 February 1945), and was attached to 26 L of C Salvage Section at Discharge on 1 May 1945, (Medically Unfit). Two of his brothers (Ricard and Lenard) served with 9th Division Ammunition Sub Park, and both were PoWs held by the Japanese in Malaya.
Youngest of four brothers, Bert was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1920 to 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 lived in Nailsworth before moving to Broken Hill in New South Wales. William worked in Broken Hill as a Contractor and Salvage Salesman (Wiehert & Bayly), returning to South Australia in the early 1920s. William and Myrtle settled at Two Wells via Wakefield, where William worked as a Mason. All four of their sons served in WWII.
Bert was working as a Labourer in Minlaten in 1939 when he married Eileen Mary McKenzie (b1922 in Minlaten, South Australia). Following his Discharge from the Army, Bert and Eilleen lived in Gawler, Yorketown and Adelaide, where they raised their family and Bert worked as a Labourer and Painter. Bert died in 2000 and Eileen died in 2002.
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