Jack Ronald (Ron) BRYAN

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BRYAN, Jack Ronald

Service Number:	18716
Enlisted:	1 September 1927
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot)
Born:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 25 March 1910
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Beaconsfield Primary School, Fremantle, Western Australia
Occupation:	Seaman (RAN)
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 May 1949, aged 39 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

1 Sep 1927:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 18716, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot)
26 Oct 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 18716, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Able Seaman Jack Ronald Bryan (Service No:18716) enlisted in the RAN on 1 September 1922 (at twelve years of age) in Fremantle as an Ordinary Seaman. A/S Bryan was based in Victoria at Flinders Navy Depot and in Sydney. On 16 March 1943 he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, and retired from the RAN on 29 October 1945.

Ron was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1910, youngest of two children of John Thomas Bryan (b1881 in Perth, Western Australia) and Ethel May Caple (b1888 in Fremantle, Western Australia). John (a Bottler) and Ethel married in 1907 in Fremantle, where they settled and raised their family and John was a Tramways Motorman until his death in 1911. Ethel later remarried.

Ron joined the Navy in Fremantle in 1922 when he was twelve years of age. In 1936 in Sydney he married Nora Gladys Harvey (b1915 in Sydney, New South Wales). Ron and Nora settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Ron was in the Navy until 1945. Ron was a Bus Conductor when he died in 1949. Nora later moved to Perth, where she died in 1985.

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