by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Salute Their Service
World War 2 Norman Leslie Ginn was born in Mildura on 16 August 1923. His parents were English migrating from England in 1919 to assist family fruit growers in the Riverina. He went to primary and high school in Mildura but left school at the age of 15 and worked as a...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Salute Their Service
World War 2 Douglas Edward Hoile was born 20 May 1924 in Laura, a rural town in the mid north of South Australia. His father was a Gallipoli veteran having served with the 12th Battalion. His uncle Private Charles Valentine Hoile, served with the 14th Field Ambulance...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Salute Their Service
Korea, Malta, Vietnam Lyall Robert Klaffer was born in Prospect, South Australia, in 1928. He attended Nailsworth Primary School and then Adelaide High School before leaving school at the age of 14 to work at F.H. Faulding and Co. Wanting to be a RAAF pilot, he...
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4SQN Boomerang pilot – WW2 David Inglis Murrie was born 18th October 1923 in Adelaide. Growing up in a farming family in the Eden Valley in the Barossa, David went to Urrbrae Agricultural High School and then Roseworthy Agriculture College. Enlisting in Adelaide on 2...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Salute Their Service
Frederick Cecil Riley was born in Motherwell, Scotland, on 20 February 1919, the second youngest of nine children. His father, Cecil Urquhart Riley, served with the Gordon Highlander Regiment during World War 1. While an older brother immigrated to South Australia in...
