GREEN, Edwin James
| Service Number: | F2099/17 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Petty Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Cottesloe, Fremantle, Western Australia, 19 July 1917 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hairdresser |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 13 May 1990, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury, Western Australia The Western Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, F2099/17 | |
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| 6 Jun 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, F2099/17 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Petty Officer Edwin James Green (Service No:F2099/17) enlisted in the RAN as an Able Seaman on 4 September 1939. Promoted to Petty Officer on 1 October 1945, he served on HMAS Rushcutter and Cerberus and was attached to HMAS Parkes at Discharge on 6 June 1946.
Born in 1917 in Collie WA, Ted was fifth of six children of George Henry Green (b1878 in Kadina, South Australia) and Isabella Allison Hodge (b1880 in Portland, South Australia). George (an Ironmonger) and Isabella married in 1904 in Perth WA and lived in Fremantle, Midland, Collie and Jarrahdale where George worked as a Boilermaker, Tallyman and Timber Worker. George was killed at Mundijong in a head-on crah with a military wagon in 1943.
Ted was a Hairdresser in Perth, and in 1939 married Maida Beryl Clifford (b1915 in Boulder, WA). Ted and Maida settled in Perth where they raised their family and Ted was a Hairdresser. Ted died in 1990 and Maida in 2006.
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