Albert William OVENDEN

OVENDEN, Albert William

Service Number: Q265135
Enlisted: 15 May 1942
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 3rd Movement Control Group
Born: London, England, 28 June 1903
Home Town: Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness, Australia, 4 September 1944, aged 41 years
Cemetery: Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld
ANZ 7 77 21
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Corporal, Q265135
15 May 1942: Enlisted Corporal, Q265135, 3rd Movement Control Group
15 May 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q265135
4 Sep 1944: Discharged

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Henry Bertrand and Edith Alice Ovenden; husband of Emily Winifred Ovenden, of Red Hill.

OBITUARY
MR. A. OVENDEN
Many Innisfail residents will regret to learn of the death in Brisbane on Monday of Mr A. Ovenden, formerly a well known Innisfail musician, and business man Mr. Ovenden, was aged 41 years, and leaves a widow, and three children to mourn his loss.
Mr. Ovenden was a great bandsman. He toured the world with the Australian Commonwealth bang, in which he played the tenor horn. He had been ill for three months.

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