David Fenbury

David Maxwell Fenbury
Born David Maxwell Fienberg
24 March 1916
Subiaco, Western Australia
Died 14 May 1976 (aged 60)
Leederville, Western Australia
Nationality Australian
Education Christian Brothers College, Perth
University of Western Australia
Occupation Public Servant
Spouse(s) Joan Marion Brazier
Helen Mary Shiels
Children 2

David Maxwell Fenbury (24 March 1916 – 14 May 1976) was an Australian public servant.

Family

Born to David Percival Fienberg, a railway official, and his wife Beatrice Amelia (née Conroy) Fienberg, both Australian born, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Perth (now Aquinas College) and the University of Western Australia.[1] From 1956-58, he was the Australian government's nominee to the secretariat of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.[1]

World War II

Granted leave to enlist, on 29 October 1941 Fenbury joined the Australian Imperial Force. He was commissioned lieutenant in November 1942 and posted to the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit. In 1942-45 he led soldiers and Papua New Guinea police on guerrilla operations, and reconnaissance and fighting patrols, in Japanese-held territory. He was promoted captain, awarded the Military Cross and mentioned in despatches.[1][2]

Personal life and death

On 15 May 1948, at St Mark's Anglican Church, East Brighton, Melbourne, Fenbury married Joan Marion Brazier (1918-1964). The couple had two children. In 1960, he registered to change his surname from Fienberg to Fenbury, via deed poll.[1]

On 30 May 1966, he married Helen Mary Shiels in a civil ceremony. He started writing a book, Practise without policy (1978), while on a visiting fellowship from the Australian National University, Canberra.

Fenbury died on 14 May 1976 from injuries received as a result of being hit by a bus in Leederville, a suburb of Perth. He was survived by his wife, and two children by his first marriage.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 David Fenbury profile, Australian Dictionary of Biography; accessed 17 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Allen, Bryant J. "A Bomb or a Bullet or the Bloody Flux?: Population Change in the Aitape Inland, Papua New Guinea, 1941-1945", The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (October 1983), pp. 218-35, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
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