Edward Alfred (Ted) Dorward

  General Notes:

Birth name down as Alfred.

Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) Monday 23 February 1931, Page 3.
ECHUCA.
Mr. E. A. Dorward of Moira, has left for Coode Island, where be will join the staff of the Lasco Flying School.

(Wikipedia - Coode Island, an almost uninhabited industrial area, is 4 km. west of Melbourne. It was formed in 1886 when canal was cut through the Sandridge swamp to provide a straightened stream for the Yarra River. The boundaries were the canal on the south, the Maribyrnong River on the west and the Yarra meander on the north and east. Its area was 97 ha. It was named after Sir John Coode, an English harbour engineer who was engaged by the Melbourne Harbor Trust to select the optimum route for the canal as part of the Port of Melbourne.)

Service Record
Name DORWARD, EDWARD ALFRED 
Service Royal Australian Air Force 
Service Number 251607 
Place of Birth Unknown 
Date of Birth 26 Apr 1910
Date of Enlistment Unknown 
Locality on Enlistment Unknown 
Place of Enlistment Unknown 
Next of Kin DORWARD, DINA 
Date of Discharge 7 Mar 1946
Rank Squadron Leader 
Posting at Discharge 37 SQUADRON 
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No 

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection.

Edward married Gloria Nancy (Nan) Wallace, daughter of John Patrick Wallace and Caroline Annie (Gypsy) Tully, in 1946 in Victoria Australia. (Gloria Nancy (Nan) Wallace was born in 1914 in Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria Australia, died on 17 Mar 1976 in Carrum, Victoria Australia and was buried on 19 Mar 1976 in Springvale Crematorium, Victoria Australia.)