SHELLEY, Ryder Britton
| Service Number: | 408460 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Central Flying School |
| Born: | Winnaleah, Tasmania, Australia, 14 April 1922 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Winnaleah State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Pershore, Worcestershire, England, 14 April 1994, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 19 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 408460, Central Flying School | |
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| 5 Feb 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 408460, Central Flying School |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Ryder Britton Shelley (Service No:408460) served in the RAAF from 19 June 1942 to 5 February 1946. LAC Shelley was attached to Central Flying School at Discharge.
Born in 1922 in Winnaleah Tasmania, Ryder was the fourth of seven children of John Prince Shelley (b1893 in Moorina, Tasmania) and Mary Burke (b1897 in Turner's Marsh, Tasmania). John (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1915 in Launceston, Tasmania - John was the son of an Anglican Minister and Mary was a Catholic. Mary's strict and devout Catholic family refused to speak with her for many years after her marriage. John and Mary lived in Waratah, Ringarooma, Winnaleah, Launceston and Scottsdale where they raised their family and John worked as a Labourer.
Ryder worked as a Clerk and in 1946 in Launceston married June Pretoria Oakley (b1926 in Waratah, Tasmania). Ryder and June had separated by 1949 and Ryder was living in Evandale where he worked as a Clerk. The couple Divorced in 1952 and Ryder was living in Melbourne, Victoria and working as a Clerk when he embarked for London in 1953 on board the Orcades. Ryder remarried to Olive. Ryder died in 1994 in Worcestershire, England.
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