Branch of Service

Air Force

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

09/10/1940

Date of Discharge

06/12/1945

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

13/03/1922

Place of Birth

Delegate NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Westlake (Yarralumla) ACT

School(s) Attended

Telopea Park School

Occupation

Motor mechanic

Next of Kin

Beryl Brill (wife), Canberra ACT

Service Number

34212

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

38 Squadron

Brill grew up at Westlake (now part of Yarralumla) and served his motor mechanic apprenticeship at the Government Transport Depot in Kingston - he was the second indentured apprentice in the ACT. He served with 38 Squadron in the war and married Beryl Faulds at Cessnock on 13 May 1944. By the 1960s Brill was the used car sales manager at Commonwealth Motors and later worked as sales manager for York Toyota. He died on 15 March 2008 and is buried in the ex-services section of Gungahlin Cemetery.

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Canberra Public Cemeteries http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au/cem_gravesearch.asp
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
Ann Gugler, 'One of the Vanished Suburbs of Canberra', 1997
The Canberra Times - 27 November 1934, 27 Janaury 1941, 14 June 1944
Images and information provided by Ann Gugler and Val Emerton