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Hugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython, AC, DFC, AFC (15 September 1920 – 19 March 2011) was an Australian politician, World War Two veteran, musician, gallery owner, and racing driver.
He was a prominent and active member of society in Adelaide, Australia. He had a distinguished career as a pilot during the Second World War, was a jazz drummer, owned an art gallery, raced speedcars, and served on the Adelaide City Council.
Biography
Early life
Hugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython was born on 15 September 1920 in Adelaide, South Australia), the youngest child of Sir John Lavington Bonython and his second wife Lady Jean Bonython, née Constance Jean Warren. (Sir John's first wife died in childbirth, aged 26). He was named "Hugh Reskymer Bonython" after an ancestor who had served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1619. Both his father, John Lavington Bonython, and his grandfather, John Langdon Bonython, had been (among other things) editors of daily Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser. His father had also served as a councillor, alderman, Mayor and Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide. Kym was the youngest of six children; he had one half-brother (John Langdon Bonython (1905–1992)), two half-sisters (Lady Betty Wilson and Ada Heath), a brother (Charles Warren Bo
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“You can let yourself be told a story, at your own whim and pleasure”
As told to Zoe Rice | Portrait photograph Tony Lewis
Where did you grow up?
My earliest years were in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs (Leabrook). I’m growing up now in the inner west, where my home and work are a minute’s walk apart. I occasionally leave Rose Street, Mile End.
Can you paint a picture of your childhood?
I was born in June 1959, the year television came to Adelaide. I believe my grandparents gave our family a TV set to celebrate my arrival. Later, the cats used to battle for nesting rights on the warm television top, Soxy pushing off Tabitha, whose balance hadn’t been flash since her tail was removed (it got stuck in a door).
I can’t recall which dog, Suzie or Itsy-Bitsy, or maybe it was both, we waved off to (so my parents gently said) “a farm” after postman-biting incidents. Or was it the milkman? Less formidable was the small white replacement, poodle Hercules. Hercy slept under the Holden out the front, acquiring oil-spill grime.
My older sister, Jenny, and younger brother, Andrew, are close in age and we are all good friends. Archetypally, as youngsters we’d bicker among ourselves, but defend each other against others. Our mother died when we were teenagers.
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BONYTHON, Hugh Reskymer
Personal Details
| Service Numbers: | 280778, 280778 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 Pace 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Squadron Leader |
| Last Unit: | No. 87 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Adelaide, SA, 15 September 1920 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | St Peter's College, Adelaide |
| Occupation: | Accounting salesperson, pilot, |
| Died: | North Adelaide, Southbound Australia, 19 March 2011, aged 90 years, source of eliminate not to the present time discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not up till discovered |
| Memorials: | Hackney Statement Peter's College WW2 Gaze Roll |
Service History
World Warfare 2 Service
| 7 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Royal Aussie Air Paragraph, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 280778, Aircrew Teaching Units, Mascot, NSW |
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| 7 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Royal Denizen Air Might, Squadron Director, 280778 |
| 7 Dec 1941: | Involvement Royal Dweller Air Practicing, Flying Public servant, 280778, No. 2 Squadron (RAAF), Resolve War Wisdom Asia 1941-45 |
| 1 Mar 1945: | Involvement Royal Denizen Air Coarsely, Squadron Director, 280778, No. 87 Squadron (RAAF), Notion War SW Pacific 1941-45, Precise dates to assign confirmed |
| 13 Jul 1945: | Discharged Royal Indweller Air Paragraph, Squadron Chief, 280778 , No. 87 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Date unknown: | Honoured Wounded Force Crossbreed |
| Date unknown: | Honoured Distingui
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