BILSON, Raymond Jack
| Service Number: | V381068 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 February 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, 14 November 1915 |
| Home Town: | Orbost, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Traralgon, Victoria, Australia , 1 April 1976, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 3 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V381068, 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 19 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V381068, 13th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Raymond was the fourth of six children of William Raymond Bilson (b1890 in Sheffield, Tasmania) and Lillian May Crole (b1894 in Warragul, Victoria). William - a Farmer - and Lillian married in 1915 at Warragul in Victoria and settled at Bairnsdale where they raised their family. William served in WWI (Private; Service No:5973) and was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous services, and in WWII he served with the Volunteer Defence Corps (Private; Service No:V365020). He and Lillian moved to Orbust, Gippsland, Victoria in 1928 where William was a Labourer.
In 1940 Raymond was living in Orbust, Gippsland, Victoria with wife Mavis Jean Treadwell (b1918 in Drouin, Victoria) - Raymond and Mavis married in 1938 in Drouin, Victoria. Raymond was working as a Farm Labourer when he enlisted with the ACMF in February 1942. He was attached to 13 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (Private; Service No:V381068) when he was Discharged in September 1945. Brother Ronald Edwin (Private; Service No:V265275) and Brother-in-Law Ernest Peter Baker (Private; Service No:74162) also served in WWII.
Raymond and Mavis lived in Orbost - where Raymond was a Labourer - until the early 1950s when they relocated their family to Morwell, Victoria where Raymond was a Train Driver. He died in 1976 and Mavis in 2011.