Hilda Grace FORSYTH / MCDONALD
Born 1914 in Wickepin, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Andrew Soutar FORSYTH and Elsie NETTLETON [15]
School Monitor at Bullaring State School in Bularing in 1935 [515]
In 1936 she was a student, presumably at Teacher's College, and was living 32 Agett Road in the Perth suburb of Claremont [50]
Head Teacher on Probation of Linfarn State School near Manjimup in 1937 [515]
Assistant Teacher at Tambellup State School in Tambellup 1938-1940 [515]
Married Gordon Stanley John MCDONALD in Narrogin in 1940 [15]
Her husband served in the Australian Army 1940-1946 and spent over two years as a Prisoner of War in Java, Indonesia [39: item 6456931]
School Teacher at the Elsinore State School 1943-1946, while living with her mother on Elsinore Farm near Wickepin [50] [515]
In January 1951 her husband was allotted Lot A705E on the War Service Land Settlement's Waddi Estate [39: 4-Jan-1951]
Waddi Estate was the former farm of Gus LIEBE located across parts of Carnamah, Bunjil, Coorow, Waddy Forest and Winchester [P1]
Resided on Sunnyfields Farm in Bunjil, using Carnamah as her address [50]
From electoral rolls they resided on the farm in Bunjil until at least 1968 and by 1972 had shifted to Perth [50]
In 1972 she and her husband were living at 426 Flinders Street in the Perth suburb of Nollamara [50]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Died 1 June 1983; memorialised at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (Garden of Remembrance, MC Section, Garden 1, 72) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Hilda Grace Forsyth / McDonald' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 24 July 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/hilda-grace-forsyth [reference list] |
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