Oswyn Ernest KELLY

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KELLY, Oswyn Ernest

Service Number:	WX13689
Enlisted:	28 May 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
Born:	Manjimup, Western Australia, 8 April 1916
Home Town:	Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Pemberton State School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Pipe Fitter
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 9 September 2015, aged 99 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

28 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, WX13689, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
28 Jan 1943:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 2 Transport Platoon RAASC
25 Jul 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, WX13689, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), embarked Sydney for Lae per Katoomba
21 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, WX13689, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Sergeant Oswyn Ernest Kelly (Service No:WX13689) enlisted in the Army on 28 May 1941 as a Private with 1 Training Battalion. On 27 March 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Fremantle with 3 Tank Transporter Coy AASC on board USAT Monterey, and was promoted to Corporal on 28 June 1943. Promoted to Lance Sergeant, he served in New Guinea (25 July 1945 - 7 November 1945) with 2/163 General Transport Coy and was Discharged on 21 November 1945.

Born in 1916 in Manjimup WA, Oswyn was the fifth of twelve children of Oswin (Oss) John Kelly (b1893 in Warragul, Victoria) and Amy (Nita) Juanita Lawrence (b1892 in Bunbury, WA). Oss was living in Donnybrook WA with his parents and siblings by 1898 and was a Labourer in Greenbushes in 1910 when he and Nita married. Oss and Nita lived in Greenbushes, Manjimup, Blackwood and Jardee where they raised their family and Oss worked as a Teamster with No 1 State Mill. By 1925 the family was settled in Pemberton, where Oss worked as a Teamster and then a Fitter's Labourer. Oss was killed in an accident in the Pemberton bush in 1934 and Nita died in 1957.

Oswyn worked on the Railways in Kalgoorlie in the 1930's and was a Pipe Fitter in Kalgoorlie in 1940 when he married Beryl May Oates (1915 in Kookynie, WA). Following his Discharge, Oswyn and Beryl settled in Scarborough in Perth WA where Oswyn worked as a Grocer's Assistant and Storeman. Beryl died in 2013 and Oswyn in 2015.

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