Stanley Morrice (Stan) BOND

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BOND, Stanley Morrice

Service Number:	75692
Enlisted:	11 May 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	No. 3 Aircraft Depot Amberley
Born:	Mudgeeraba, Queensland, Australia, 11 December 1904
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	French Polisher
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 December 1990, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, Queensland
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World War 2 Service

11 May 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 75692, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
12 Dec 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman
5 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 75692, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
1 Mar 1946:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, No. 3 Aircraft Depot Amberley

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Stanley Morrice Bond (Service No:75692) enlisted in the RAAF on 11 may 1942 and mustered as a Painter. He was promoted to Leading Aircraftman (12 December 1942) and Corporal (1 March 1945) and was attached to 3 Aircraft Depot at Discharge on 5 December 1945.

Born in 1904 at Mudgeeraba nr Southport in QLD, Stan was the eighth of eleven children of Walter Charles Bond (b1867 in Hampshire, England) and Harriet Frances Austin (b1869 in Sussex, England). Walter (an Agricultural Labourer) and Harriet married in 1889 in Hampshire, England and immigrated that year, arriving in Brisbane on board the Merkara. Walter was a Railways Employee, and he and Harriet lived along the Western QLD Line at 141 Mile Camp, 208 Mile Gate, Cherry Gully, Mudgeeraba, Esk and Ottaba before settling at Corinda in Brisbane in the early 1920s - Walter continued working for the Railways.

Stan completed an apprenticeship as a French Polisher with Brimson Bros in Brisbane and in 1931 married Rosina (Ena) Rix (b1906 in Brisbane, QLD) - Ena was a Saleswoman in Brisbane. Following his Discharge in 1945, Stan returned to work as a French Polisher and he and Ena settled at Nundah in Brisbane. Ena died in 1976 and Stan in 1990.

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