Ronald Harry Nissen
1919 - 1996 (76 år)-
Navn Ronald Harry Nissen Født 6 dec. 1919 New South Wales, Australien 
- Point Clare
Køn Mand Død 29 sep. 1996 New South Wales, Australien - Wyong
Person-ID I85696 My Family Genealogy | Familen Ravnholdt & Hansen Sidst ændret 1 aug. 2018
Far Hans Johannes Trules Nissen, f. 31 mar. 1872, Fredericia-, Elbo Herred, Vejle Amt, Danmark , d. 17 mar. 1941, New South Wales, Australien (Alder 68 år) Mor Florence Harriet Swarzes, f. 11 feb. 1887, New South Wales, Australien , d. 27 jun. 1975, New South Wales, Australien (Alder 88 år) Gift 21 dec. 1914 New South Wales, Australien Familie-ID F24117 Gruppeskema | Familietavle
Familie 1 Norma Dalveen Riley, f. 1923, d. 2001 (Alder 78 år) Sidst ændret 1 aug. 2018 Familie-ID F29379 Gruppeskema | Familietavle
Familie 2 Marie Heslin, f. 1932, d. 1995 (Alder 63 år) Gift 16 nov. 1951 Børn 1. Stephen Nissen, f. 13 maj 1958, d. 13 maj 1958 (Alder 0 år) Sidst ændret 1 aug. 2018 Familie-ID F29380 Gruppeskema | Familietavle
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Notater Because he moved through so many schools Ronnie did not make it to sixth grade before leaving school at
the age of thirteen in 1933. He tried many and varied jobs including working for his stepgrandfather
who had now moved to Ourimbah on the Central Coast. However he never really
stuck to anything. His great joy was cricket in which he quite excelled. When war was declared
in September 1939 he was one of Point Clare’s first young men to volunteer for the army and,
after a brief training course in Sydney, he was sent to the Middle East.Ronald Harry NISSEN, (son of Hans Johannes Trules NISSEN and Florence Harriet SWARZES /MATTHEWS) born 6 December 1919 Point Clare, NSW. Because he moved through so many schools, Ronnie did not make it to sixth grade before leaving school at the age of thirteen in 1933. He tried many and varied jobs, including working for his step grandfather at Ourimbah on the Central Coast. However he was quite wild and never really stuck to anything. His great joy was cricket, and he was quite a good cricketer. War was declared in September 1939 and Ron was one of Point Clare’s first young men to volunteer for the army on 3 November 1939. After a brief training course in Sydney he was among the first of the Australian troops to embark for overseas on 26 February 1940 with the 2/1 Infantry Battalion. He served in Kilo 89 Camp on Gaza Ridge, and in Gaza, Palestine, becoming a corporal on 19 April 1941. He was on active duty abroad when his father died in 1941. He returned to Australia on 10 March 1942.
He met his first wife, Norma RILEY, while on camp in Toowoomba. They were married on 9 January 1943. Ron was discharged from the army on 1 October 1943 medically unfit. They came to Sydney to live, firstly living with Flo in Bondi, then in a very small bed-sit around the corner. They had one child, Dalveen. Norma was a good seamstress and after her sister-in-law, Dot, was married, she made an outfit for her. Ron was not really suited for marriage and it did not last long; Norma and Dalveen eventually returned to Toowoomba. After the marriage break-up Ron went bush for a while then returned to live in a boarding house in Woollahra. Some time after the war he and his brother Ray went bush again and worked in various towns of NSW, Ray as a chef and Ron as a barman. Eventually, travelling back to Sydney from Dubbo by train Ron met Marie HESLIN who had been visiting her family. He soon married her and they had three children, Michael, Peter and the youngest, Stephen, who died as a baby. He held down various jobs in hotels and was also a bus conductor for a while. He also had a job with BHP Steel in Newcastle. However once again his marriage was doomed to failure. Marie eventually took the children to the country town where she was working and Ron never saw them again. He later had another child, Llani, with a lady called Netta. Ron always thought of himself as a ladies’ man. He was a great supporter of his local RSL and proud of his army service. After many years of boarding in Campbell Av, Paddington, he moved to the Central Coast living in a number of bed-sits. For a short while he lived with his sister, Dot, at Killarney Vale. Ron died on 29 September 1996 at Wyong, NSW. His ashes were put in his father’s grave in Point Clare.