Marjory Elma RIGBY (SHORT)

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RIGBY (SHORT), Marjory Elma

Service Number:	WR/59
Enlisted:	1 October 1942
Last Rank:	Writer
Last Unit:	HMAS Huon (Shore)
Born:	Sydney, NSW, 21 June 1912
Home Town:	Northbridge, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stenographer
Died:	11 February 2003, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW
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World War 2 Service

1 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Writer, WR/59, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot)
16 Aug 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Navy, WR/59, HMAS Huon (Shore)

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Marjory Rigby was born in Sydney and grew up on Sydney’s North Shore and the Northern Beaches. Pre-war she worked as a Stenographer. She enrolled in the WRANS in February 1942 from the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps and was attested in October the same year. Marjory was one of the few early WRANS who was not rated as a Telegraphist. Initially she was rated as a “Writer Teleprinter Operator” and later as a WRAN Writer.
Marjory served in HMAS Harman and Lonsdale and briefly with the Australian Women’s Army Service in Tasmania in mid-1946. She discharged from the WRANS in Hobart on the 16th of August 1946.
In 1948 Marjory married Warrant Officer 1 Bradley Hamilton Short 9th Division AIF NX116998.
Post war Marjory and Bradley lived in Bondi, Matraville, and Hillsdale in NSW where Bradley worked as a Public Servant.
Marjory passed away in Randwick on the 11th of February 2003 and was cremated at the Eastern Suburbs Crematorium where her ashes are interred. Bradley lived another decade before passing away in 2013 at the age of 99.

Biography by Tony Vine

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