John Moreton HENDRY

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HENDRY, John Moreton

Service Numbers:	O210913, 02109113/127373
Enlisted:	1 March 1943
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 86 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1 February 1907
Home Town:	Bondi, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Physical Culture Instructor
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 7 October 1990, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium
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World War 2 Service

1 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 02109113/127373, No. 86 Squadron (RAAF)
1 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, O210913
21 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 02109113/127373, No. 86 Squadron (RAAF)
21 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, O210913
Date unknown:	Involvement Flying Officer, 02109113/127373, No. 86 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

John was the eldest of two children of William Wyper Hendry (born 1881 at Clackmannanshire in Scotland) and Emily Moreton (born 1882 in Lancashire, England). William was an apprentice in Lancashire when he met Emily, a Milliner, and they married in Scotland in 1905, where William was an Electrical Engineer.

John immigrated to Sydney, NSW where he was a Storeman at Bondi in Sydney when he married Ethel Helena Applegarth (born 1903 in New Zealand) in 1927. John was a Physical Culture Instructor with the Army and served with the ACMF 30 Battalion A Coy as a Private (Service No:265889) in 1936/1937. He and Ethel Divorced in 1938 and in March 1943, John enlisted with the RAAF. He was attached to 86 Squadron as a Flying Officer (Service No:021099113/127373) when he was Discharged in December 1945. In 1948, John married Dorothy Ireland (born 1917 in Croydon, NSW) at Armidale in NSW. Dorothy had served in the WRAAF as an Aircraftwoman (Service No:105546) with 2 Radio Installation and Maintenance Unit from 1942 to 1945.

John and Dorothy settled in Sydney, NSW where John was a Salesman. He died in 1990.

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