Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Air Force
- Conflict
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Date of Discharge
- 24/01/1946
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 01/02/1916
- Address (at enlistment)
- Coranderrk Street, Reid ACT
- Occupation
- Methodist Minister
- Next of Kin
- Irven Trathen (wife), Coranderrk Street, Reid ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Chaplain
- Final Unit
- 12 Aircraft Repair Depot
Notes
Methodist Minister at the church in Reid at the time of his enlistment. Trathen had been minister at Reid for three and half years when he resigned to join the RAAF on 31 May 1943. He served at RAAF Station Canberra and No.8 Squadron. He married Irven Herbert, who worked for the YMCA, in December 1942.
Sources
James Udy, 'Living Stones: The Story of the Methodist Church in Canberra', 1974 (pp.103-104)
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Jane Hingston, 'RAAF Fairbairn. History or Heritage: Can it be both?', Canberra Historical Journal, September 2002 (p.26)
AWM Collections Record : PR00218
ACT Electoral Rolls 1928 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php