Kenneth Halliday (Ken) WARHURST

WARHURST, Kenneth Halliday

Service Numbers: N51775, 421949
Enlisted: 7 August 1940, Marrickville, New South Wales
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 6 Operational Training Unit Nowra
Born: Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, 22 October 1919
Home Town: Bexley, Rockdale, New South Wales
Schooling: Bankstown Public School and Kogarah Intermediate High School
Occupation: Cadet Journalist (Sydney Daily Telegraph)
Died: Accidental, Jervis Bay, New South Wales (18 miles east of Point Perpendicular), Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, 26 January 1944, aged 24 years
Cemetery: Nowra War Cemetery
B. B. 7
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

7 Aug 1940: Enlisted N51775, Marrickville, New South Wales
14 Oct 1941: Discharged Lance Sergeant, N51775, Field Company Engineers, AMF Certificate of discharge states: Served on Continuous Full Time War Service in the CMF from 1 Oct 41 to 14 Oct 41 (On which date he was released from Service). This was the result of Ken having enrolled in the RAAF Reserve.
24 Apr 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 421949
24 Apr 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421949
25 Apr 1942: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, 421949
26 Jan 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 421949, No. 6 Operational Training Unit Nowra

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Kenneth Halliday WARHURST was born on 22nd October, 1919 at Ashton upon Lyne, Lancashire, England

His parents were Samuel Wood WARHURST & Mabel HALLIDAY who married in England in 1918