Sydney Edgar EDWARDS

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EDWARDS, Sydney Edgar

Service Number:	VX74334
Enlisted:	16 February 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Australian Ordnance Beach Detachment
Born:	Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 12 May 1914
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Munitions Worker
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 August 1991, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria Lawn F 36
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World War 2 Service

16 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX74334, 2nd Australian Ordnance Beach Detachment
16 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX74334
17 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX74334, 2nd Australian Ordnance Beach Detachment
17 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX74334
Date unknown:	Involvement Corporal, VX74334

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sydney was the youngest of eight children of Thomas Earl Edwards Snr (born 1875 in Wales) and Isabella (Bella) Elizabeth Caldwell (born 1874 in Nerring, Victoria). Tom Snr was a Gold Miner at Bendigo, Victoria in 1898 when he married Bella, and in 1902 the family moved to the Goldfields in Western Australia where Tom Snr was a Gold Miner/Prospector at Daveyhurst until 1906 when they returned to Bendigo. Tom Snr worked as a Gold Miner until his death in 1930.

Sydney worked as a Miner at Sandhurst in Bendigo, Victoria and in 1939 married Machinist Kathleen Jean Mahar (born 1917 at Budgerum in Wimmera, Victoria). Sydney and Kathleen settled in Melbourne where Sydney was a Munitions Worker when he enlisted in the Army in February 1942. He was a Corporal (Service No:47334) with 2 Australian Beach Workshops when he was Discharged in January 1946. Brother Thomas Earl (Private; Service No:2401) and Brother in Law Hubert Charles Jason (Private; Service No:4118) served in WWI, and Brothers John Henry (Private; QX10577), and William Caldwell (Corporal; Service No:QX10578) served in WWII.

Sydney and Kathleen settled in Melbourne, Victoria where Sidney worked as Tram Driver until Retirement. Sydney died in 1991 and Kathleen in 2006.

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