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Glen Alexander Traill passed away in Tin Can Bay Queensland on 4 June 2023, survived by his wife, Jennifer, daughters Avril and Belinda, and five grandchildren.
Born in Punchbowl, NSW, Glen qualified as a coach builder with NSW Railways before being called up for National Service. On 105th Battery’s second tour he was a highly competent and respected signaller serving primarily in the observer party deployed with A Company, 5RAR, but also in the battery command post.
After the Army Glen returned to coach building before moving around Australia undertaking different jobs - carpentry, electricity meter reading, shaping marble installations, running a catamaran hire business - and then settling in Tin Can Bay in 1996. His interests were music, sailing and furniture making, and in retirement he was the founder of, and bass guitarist in, the quartet “ 4 Shades of Grey”. Fifty years after Vietnam he still possessed the Akai reel-to-reel tape deck on which some of his mates had heard stereo for the first time.
Vale Glen Traill |
