HUGHES, Gordon Walter
| Service Number: | W84698 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Pingelly, Western Australia, 14 September 1921 |
| Home Town: | Duranillin, West Arthur, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Saw Miller |
| Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 9 September 1998, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 14 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W84698, 12th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W84698, 12th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gordon was the youngest of four children of Marinus Morton Hughes (aka Morton, b1890 in Stirling, South Australia) and Elsie Ruby Rosie Gregory (b1894 in Northam, WA). Morton (a Farmer) and Elsie married in 1913 in Marwonga, WA and settled in the Duranilan Region where they raised their family and Morton was a Farmer. Following Elsie's death in 1935, Morton remarried.
Gordon worked as a Saw Miller in Duranilan and enlisted in the ACMF in January 1941. He was a Private (Service No:W84698) attached to 12 Battalion (Jarrah) VDC.
In 1942 Gordon married Eva Gladys Lloyd (b1921 in Campbelltown, South Australia) in Duranilan, where they settled and raised their family. Gordon was a Saw Miller until his father's death in 1956, when he briefly took over the farm before moving to Bunbury in the 1960s. Gordon worked as a Salesman in Bunbury, where Eva died in 1989 and Gordon in 1998.