HILL, Edith Louise
| Service Number: | WF94080 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 January 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | HQ Western Command Army Service Corps (AMF) |
| Born: | Busselton, Western Australia, 25 December 1924 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 26 April 2005, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WF94080 | |
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| 3 Jul 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WF94080 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Corporal, WF94080, HQ Western Command Army Service Corps (AMF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Edith was the youngest of five children of Rhyce Hill (born 1883 in Durham, England) and Catherine (Kate) Mary Rawling (born 1894 in Durham, England). Rhyce worked as an Ironworks Labourer in Durham before enlisting in the British Army where he served in India (1911) as a Private (Regimental No:641). In 1913 Rhyce and Kate married in Durham and Rhyce served with the British Army's Durham Light Infantry as a Private (Regimental No:8964) in France. In 1924 Rhyce (a Farm Hand) and Kate, with two of their children, immigrated to Fremantle, Western Australia on board the Jervis Bay. They were Settlers at Cowarumup in southern Western Australia before moving to Perth in the late 1930s. Rhyce was a Labourer when he enlisted in the ACMF in 1939 - he served as a Warrant Officer II with 10th and 29th Garrison Battalions.
Edith, born in Busselton in December 1924, was working as a Clerk in Perth WA when she enlisted in the Australian Army Women's Service (AAWS) in 1943. Edith was a Corporal (Service No:WF94080) attached to HQ Western Command when she was Discharged in July 1946. Brother Rhyce Jnr (Private; Service Nos:W4344/WX34347) and Brother-in-Law Joseph Stephen (Private; WX10040) also served in WWII as did Edith's husband Aloysius Edward Brennan (Driver; Service No:11873).
In 1947 Edith married Aloysius Edward Brennan (AKA Edward; born 1917 in Perth, WA). Edith and Edward settled in Perth where Edward worked as a Railways Shunter and Linesman. In the 1950s Edith and Edward relocated to Harvey, WA where Edward was a Forestry Worker. They moved to Collie, WA in the mid 1970s and Edward worked as a Storeman. Edward died in 1995 and Edith in 2005.