The Baldock Family · Alfred & Frances Baldock
David Keith Baldock 1911–1958
The ninth and last child — twice married, a Second A.I.F. soldier, and dead suddenly at forty-six, leaving behind two families from two marriages.
Read their storyTheo Ernest Funnell b. 1914
Born at Marrickville on 1 March 1914 and baptised there a month later, Theo was working as a grocer at the Earlwood family home in 1937 and an insurance agent by 1939, the year he married Jean Amy Macray Dunnet at Randwick. He served with the 2nd AIF (NX175404), enlisting at Wollongong; the couple later lived at Bexley, then at “Mindawanda,” Darcy Road, Castle Hill, and had settled by 1980 at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, where Theo worked as an orchardist.[114][115][116]
Read their storyAllan Harold Funnell 1916–2001
Born at Marrickville on 1 February 1916 — baptised at St Stephen’s, Newtown, as “Harold Allan” — he worked as an accountant while still living at the family home in Earlwood through the 1930s and into the 1940s, and married Florence Emily Kathleen Fulder in 1943 at Canterbury. He served in the RAAF and was later ordained, rising to Reverend Canon and serving, with the rank of Flight Lieutenant, as chaplain to No. 4 Air Field Construction Squadron RAAF. He died at Beecroft Nursing Home on 16 March 2001, aged eighty-five, survived by Florence and their children Barbara, Stephen and Philip.[114][115][117]
Read their storyNeville Geoffrey Funnell 1924–2001
The youngest son, born at Campsie on 4 May 1924, Neville served in the RAAF (422945), enlisting at Sydney with his father named as next of kin. He married Bettina May Graves, born at Kyabram, Victoria, in 1922, and the couple settled in her home district; Bettina died there in 1996 and Neville in 2001, both buried at Kyabram Cemetery.[115][118]
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Chapter Two · Thomas & Mary Rebecca Robens
Leslie Robert 1915 – 1974
He went further from the family orbit than any of his brothers — enlisting at Wollongong rather than in Sydney, and marrying into the Sutherland shire, where he stayed.[17]
Read their storyThomas Peter 1919 –
The best-documented of the eight, because he served twice. A labourer of twenty-two with eighteen months in the 18th Battalion behind him, he attested in August 1941 for the harbour guns at Georges Heights. Seven months later he transferred to the AIF, married four days after that, and sailed for Port Moresby three weeks after the wedding.[12][14]
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