
ADAM, Rea Douglas Porter
Service Numbers: | 423278, N92310 |
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Enlisted: | 5 August 1940 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | Lines of Communication Units |
Born: | Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia, 19 November 1917 |
Home Town: | Bankstown, Bankstown, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Carpet & Lino Layer |
Died: | Illness, Archerfield, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia, 10 August 1946, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Forces Memorial Wall Niche 46SA |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Flying Officer Adam 423278 of Number 4 Communications Unit
Son of Walter and Isabella Jane Adam
Husband of Esme Bertha Adam of Bankstown, NSW
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Rea Douglas Porter ADAM was born in Ashfield, NSW on 19th November, 1917
His parents were Walter ADAM & Isabella Jane PORTER who married in Sydney in 1914
He married Esme Bertha BERRY in Sydney in 1942
He enlisted with the RAAF in Sydney on 20th June 1942 and was discharged on 20th March, 1945 - last rank was Flying Officer with the No. 4 Communications Unit at Archerfield in Queensland
Rea died in the Repatriation General Hospital in Concord West, NSW of Illness on 10th August 1946 and was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium in Sydney