OVENDEN, Albert William
Service Number: | Q265135 |
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Enlisted: | 15 May 1942 |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 3rd Movement Control Group |
Born: | London, England, 28 June 1903 |
Home Town: | Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness, Australia, 4 September 1944, aged 41 years |
Cemetery: |
Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZ 7 77 21 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, Q265135 | |
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15 May 1942: | Enlisted Corporal, Q265135, 3rd Movement Control Group | |
15 May 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q265135 | |
4 Sep 1944: | Discharged |
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Son of Henry Bertrand and Edith Alice Ovenden; husband of Emily Winifred Ovenden, of Red Hill.
OBITUARY
MR. A. OVENDEN
Many Innisfail residents will regret to learn of the death in Brisbane on Monday of Mr A. Ovenden, formerly a well known Innisfail musician, and business man Mr. Ovenden, was aged 41 years, and leaves a widow, and three children to mourn his loss.
Mr. Ovenden was a great bandsman. He toured the world with the Australian Commonwealth bang, in which he played the tenor horn. He had been ill for three months.