BASEY, Allan Sidney Phillips
| Service Number: | 1828 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 30 September 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 13th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Stirling West, South Australia, 19 February 1892 |
| Home Town: | Goodwood, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Hahndorf Academy |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Natural causes, Heidelberg, Victoria, 8 September 1962, aged 70 years |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Boronia Wall Niche Wall X Niche 169 |
| Memorials: | Men from Renmark and District Roll of Honor Boards (4), North Hobart Friends' School Honour Roll, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Following education a Hahndorf College and the Firends School, Hobart, ASP Basey worked on his borhter Howard's fruit block and in the accountant's office at Renmark. There, he took up a returned soldier's block after distinguished service in World War I. Poor returns during the Depression forced Allan Basey to find employment with the electrical engineering contracting firm Newton, McLaren Ltd. in Adelaideand Melbourne. Still yearning for some closer connections with the land, Allan then became manager of the Woorinen Fruitgrowers' Co-operative near Swan Hill, in Victoria before retiring to Melbourne in 1957.
Allan Basey married Nancy Cutlack, whose brother Fred Cutlack was war correspondent attached to Sir John MOnash during World War I.
As a youth ASP Basey was a keen tennis player for the SA State teams and later took up golf. He was the first President of the Renmark RSL sub-branch. while working for Newton, McLaren, Allan conducted an evening musical programme on commercial radio to advertise the firm.
'A College in the Wattles' by Reg Butler ISBN 07316 7463 4
Biography
Son of Frederick BASEY and Lucy Sophia nee PHILLIPS
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