Beryl Patricia "Pat" Potts 1920

Beryl Patricia "Pat" PottsAge: 241920–1945

Name: Beryl Patricia "Pat" Potts

Given names: Beryl Patricia

Surname: Potts

Nickname: Pat

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Birth	31 October 1920 24 22 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Pat with her mum.
Occupation	Teacher
Australian History	1920 Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 2 months) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 14 months) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 2) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	1926 (Age 5) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 6) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 7) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History	1929 (Age 8) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 9) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History	1931 (Age 10) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Birth of a brother	9 August 1932 (Age 11) Creswick, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Charles Henry Lyle Potts
Australian History	1932 (Age 11) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a paternal grandmother	20 May 1933 (Age 12) Healesville, Victoria, Australia paternal grandmother - Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
Australian History	1933 (Age 12) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Birth of a brother	29 March 1935 (Age 14) Creswick, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Charles Barry Potts
Residence	December 1935 (Age 15) 8 Scottsdale Street, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
Education	University High School 1936 (Age 15)
Australian History	1936 (Age 15) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 16) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Photo	University High School Girls' Tennis 1938 (Age 17) Parkville, Victoria, Australia University High School Girls' Tennis
Australian History	1938 (Age 17) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 18) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Australian History	1940 (Age 19) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Australian History	1941 (Age 20) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.
Australian History	1942 (Age 21) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.
Australian History	1943 (Age 22) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.
Post Card	Letter 30 November 1944 (Age 24) Cowes, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Charles Henry Lyle Potts Post Card from Pat to Lyle
Australian History	1944 (Age 23) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Event	30 November 1944 (Age 24) Cowes, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Charles Henry Lyle Potts
Australian History	1945 (Age 24) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Death	20 July 1945 (Age 24) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) (about) Saturday 21 July 1945 Page 14 Note: - POTTS – On July 20, at 8 Scottsdale street, Surrey Hills, Beryl Patricia Potts, dearly loved only daughter of Charles and Beryl Potts, loved sister of Lyle and Barry, aged 24 years.
Burial	July 1945 (Age 24) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
Religion	Church Of England

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father	Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A. Birth 21 June 1896 34 38 Healesville, Victoria, Australia Death 21 August 1957 (Age 61) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia Loading...
2 years mother	Beryl Mayo Watson Birth 31 October 1898 23 24 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 26 March 1959 (Age 60) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 15 September 1917 — Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
3 years #1 herself	Beryl Patricia "Pat" Potts Birth 31 October 1920 24 22 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 20 July 1945 (Age 24) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia Loading...
12 years #2 younger brother	Charles Henry Lyle Potts Birth 9 August 1932 36 33 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 26 August 2008 (Age 76) 10 Francis St, Moe, Victoria, Australia Loading...
3 years #3 younger brother	Charles Barry Potts Birth 29 March 1935 38 36 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 7 September 1979 (Age 44) Woodside, Victoria, Australia Loading...