13. William Piercy Austin 1924 [1660]

PARENT 12. William Piercy Austin 1892 [1439]

WILLIAM PIERCY AUSTIN (BILL) was born in Oakleigh,Victoria on the 30 October 1924 and died in Victoria on the 26 October 1988, aged 62 He was buried at the Springvale Necropolis cemetery on the 2 November 1988- Joshua Jordan Lawn Row AT Grave 17, with his parents.

He was born in Oakleigh, Victoria and was educated in Yoogalie Public School, Leelou Intermediate High School and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School from 1939 to 1942. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1943 and was in New Guinea. He was demobilised in 1946. In 1947 he enrolled as a medical student in Melbourne University from where he graduated in 1952. He was resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital during 1953-54. He left for England in 1954 where he worked as a doctor in the RAF base at Lyneham, Wiltshire. He then served in Germany with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned to Australia in 1957 and established a medical practice in Middle Park, Victoria, retiring in 1986. He died two years later, a bachelor.