
ASHWORTH, Wallace Wadsworth
Service Number: | NX59571 |
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Enlisted: | 18 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | Works / Labour / Employment / 'Alien' Company/ies |
Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 22 July 1910 |
Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Motor lorry & car driver |
Died: | Fractured skull - motor accident, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, 12 October 1940, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Cremated Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, New South Wales Cremation Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Wallace Wadsworth ASHWORTH was born in Sydney on 22nd July, 1910
His parents were Edrick ASHWORTH & Alice ARMSTRONG who married in Kelso, NSW on 7th January 1902
He married Rita Brenda DONOVAN in Sydney in 1930 - two children, Valerie & Geoffrey
He enlisted in Paddington, Sydney with the Army on 18th July, 1940 and served with the Army Labour Service, 8 Employment Company
Wallace died in Sydney Hospital on 12th October, 1940 following an accident between his motor cycle & a car in Darlinghurst, Sydney and was cremated at Eastern Suburbs Crematorium