LEE, Norman Stuart
| Service Number: | 400809 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 November 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Horsham, Victoria, Australia, 1 March 1920 |
| Home Town: | Lismore, Corangamite, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Ballarat College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Officer, Commercial Bank of Australasia |
| Died: | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 11 August 2011, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woden (Canberra) Public Cemetery, ACT The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 400809 | |
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| 2 Aug 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 400809 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Warrant Officer Norman Stuart Lee (Service No:400809) enlisted in the RAAF on 8 November 1940 at No 1B Mobile Recruiting Centre Ballarat as an Aircraftman II and attended No 1 Initial Training School (ITS) Somers. In 1941 ACII (Weary) Lee attended Elementary and Service Flying Training Schools and embarked from Melbourne for Rhodesia. In November 1943, as Flight Sergeant (second Pilot), he was one of six crew of a Wellington reconnaissance aircraft (landed in the Strait of Bonifacio with engine trouble) who were picked up by an Italian destroyer on its way to Malta to surrender (Sun; Monday Nov 1, 1943; p7). During 1942/1945, Pilot Lee was attached to the RAF at 21 Personnel Transit Centre (PTC), No 1 Middle East Training School (METS), HQ Middle East, 94 Squadron, No 1 Australian Air Ambulance Unit, No 70 Operational Training Unit (OTU) Egypt, 458 Squadron and at RAF Shandur. WO Lee flew Tiger Moth, Oxford, Hurricane, Wellington and Harvard aircraft, and was hospitalised on numerous occasions with Malaria, Tonsilitis, Sand Fly Fever and Jaundice. WO Lee was attached to Advanced Flying and Refresher Unit at Discharge on 2 August 1945.
Born in Horsham, Victoria in 1920, Norman was eldest of four children of Edwin (Eddie) Lee (b1888 in Nhill, Victoria) and Ruby Ethel Laing (b1892 in Jeparit, Victoria). Eddie (a Farmer) and Ruby (a Dressmaker) married in 1919 in Jeparit, Victoria and lived in Nhill, Horsham and Lismore where Eddie was a Farmer/Grazier. Eddie served in the ACMF in WWII.
Norman was a Bank Clerk with the Commercial Bank of Australia when he enlisted in the RAAF, and was in Ballarat, Victoria in 1945 when he married Mary (Molly) Charlotte Bromley (b1920 at Terang, Victoria). Norman and Molly lived at Mortlake, Victoria where Norman was a Farmer. Following their Divorce in the mid 1950s, Norman remarried in Ballarat in 1958 to Enid (Tweet) Margaret Block (b1929 in Jeparit, Victoria) - Tweet was working at Apollo Bay as a Typist and Clerk. The couple relocated to Bathurst, NSW where Norman worked as an Insurance Agent before moving to Canberra, ACT in the early 1970s, where he was a Manager. Norman died in 2011 and Tweet in 2020.
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