Lyle Bruce Mcpherson HONE

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HONE, Lyle Bruce Mcpherson

Service Numbers:	205414, VX59406
Enlisted:	15 March 1930
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Royal Australian Engineers
Born:	Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 26 July 1913
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Signwriter, Painter & Builder
Died:	Illness, Alfred Hospital, Prahan, Victoria, Australia, 13 June 1946, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia Church of England, Row 174, Grave 6
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

Non Warlike Service

15 Mar 1930:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Air Cadet, 205414, Royal Australian Air Force
1 Jul 1930:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Air Cadet, 205414, Royal Australian Air Force

World War 2 Service

12 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX59406
30 Oct 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , VX59406, Royal Australian Engineers, Engineers Training Battalion (ME)

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Biography contributed

Lyle Bruce McPherson HONE was born in Brighton in Victoria on 26th July, 1913

His parents were Thomas Colin HONE & Margaret Pearl JOHNSON who married in Victoria in 1910

He married Olive Maude DUELL in Victoria in 1937

Lyle first served in the Permanent RAAF (Citizens) SN (205414) where he enlisted on 15th May, 1930 as a Cadet II and was discharged on 1st July 1930

On 12th July, 1941 he enlisted in the Army (SN VX59406) & was discharged as medically unfit on 30th October, 1942 - his last rank was a Sapper in the Engineers Training Battalion (ME) Royal Australian Engineers

He died in the Alfred Hospital in Prahan of illness on 13th June 1946 and is buried in the New Cheltenham Cemetery

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His brother Wallace McPherson HONE served during WW2 in the RAAF (SN 129456) and was discharged on 14th August, 1945

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