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WARHURST, Kenneth Halliday
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | N51775, 421949 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
7 Aug 1940: | Enlisted N51775, Marrickville, New South Wales | |
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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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Add my storyBiography 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