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ANDREWARTHA, Edwin Max
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | Officer |
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Enlisted: | 1 November 1922 |
Last Rank: | Commander |
Last Unit: | HMAS Lonsdale (Depot / Base) |
Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia , 16 December 1904 |
Home Town: | Burwood, Whitehorse, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Manager |
Died: | Natural causes, Encounter Bay, South Australia, 2 April 1987, aged 82 years |
Cemetery: |
Victor Harbor General Cemetery, South Australia |
Memorials: | South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
Biography contributed by John Andrewartha
HMAS Goonambee was requisitioned for Naval Service on 28 June 1940, and purchased by the RAN on 29 June 1943.
She was commissioned on 9 August 1940 under the command of Lieutenant Commander E.M Andrewartha, RANR, until paying off on 21 June, 1944.
On 4 October 1944, she was sold to Cam and Sons Pty Ltd