Cyril Ernest EDDY

EDDY, Cyril Ernest

Service Number: WX15415
Enlisted: 25 July 1941
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 2nd/6th Commando Squadron
Born: Northam, Western Australia, 21 April 1917
Home Town: West Leederville, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Miner
Died: Killed in Action, Papua New Guinea, 8 October 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
Burial reference: - Plot IB, Row C, Grave 8. Personal Inscription: - "SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL"
Memorials: Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Trooper, WX15415
25 Jul 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX15415
28 Nov 1942: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Trooper, 2nd/6th Commando Squadron

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Ernest Orwin Eddy and Catherine Gertrude Stokes (married 1911 in Northam, Western Australia) of West Leedenille, Western Australia.