Branch of Service

Air Force

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

30/01/1941

Date of Discharge

03/07/1945

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

03/07/1920

Place of Birth

St Kilda, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Elimatta Street, Reid ACT

School(s) Attended

Ainslie Public School, Telopea Park School

Occupation

Public servant

Next of Kin

Alex Trowbridge (father), Elimatta Street, Reid ACT

Service Number

21587

Final Rank

Warrant Officer

Final Unit

2 Personnel Depot, Bradfield Park

Honour Roll in 'The Beacon', the Magazine of Ainslie School 1943

Trowbridge arrived in Canberra with his family in 1928 and in 1936 joined the public service as a messenger with the Patents Office. A scout with the 3rd Canberra (St. John's) Troop, he joined the RAAF in 1941 and was flying in a Tiger Moth along the coast of Devon, England when it crashed in January 1944, hospitalising him. After the war he married Freda Brown at St. Andrew's in Forrest and returned to the public service and lived in McKinlay Street, Narrabundah. He retired from the public service in 1980 and received an OBE the following year. Trowbridge died on 13 January 1995 and his ashes were interred in Woden Cemetery.

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
Canberra Public Cemeteries http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au/cem_gravesearch.asp
Hope Hewitt, 'Canberra's First Schoolhoouse', 1987 (p.102)
Public Service Board, 'List of permanent officers of the Commonwealth Public Service as on 30th June 1937'
AWM Collections Record : P02251.002
The Canberra Times - 21 December 1934, 22 June 1939, 26 January 1944, 19 December 1945, 29 September 1980, 21 March 1981