Esther Mary Ada BINKS

BINKS, Esther Mary Ada

Service Number: 91692
Enlisted: 4 January 1942
Last Rank: Aircraftwoman
Last Unit: No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale
Born: Camden, South Australia, Australia, 27 June 1923
Home Town: Klemzig, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling: Westbourne Park School, South Australia
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness, No. 2 RAAF Hospital, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia,, 13 May 1942, aged 18 years
Cemetery: Dudley Park Cemetery, South Australia
Section A, Row 6, Grave 242S
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Daw Park Repatriation Hospital WW2 Women of the Armed Forces Who Died HR, St Marys SA Army Nursing Sisters/Women Memorial Wall
Show Relationships

World War 2 Service

4 Jan 1942: Involvement 91692
4 Jan 1942: Enlisted Adelaide
4 Jan 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91692
13 May 1942: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91692, No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale, WAAAFS
13 May 1942: Involvement
Date unknown: Involvement

Help us honour Esther Mary Ada Binks's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Esther Mary Ada BINKS was born in Camden, South Australia on 27th June 1923

Her parents were Joseph William Ernest BINKS & Emily Harvey EDWARDS who married in the Registry Office, Islington, London in 1920 - they had 4 known children

1. Ernest Dudley

2. Esther Mary Ada

3. Grace Rhonda

4. Betty Clara

She enlisted in Adelaide on 4th January, 1942 and was an Aircraftwoman, 4th class with the No. 1 Engineering School of the WAAAFS - she was with the Head Quarters, No. 2 Unit on her death

Esther died of Illness at the No. 2 RAAF Hospital in Ascot Vale, Victoria on 13th May, 1942 and is buried in Dudley Park Cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia

-----------

Her father Joseph William Ernest (Ernie) BINKS served in WW1 (SN2118 and returned to Australia in 1917 & was discharged in 1918 - he returned to London to Marry in 1920

Her brother Ernest Dudley BINKS (SN48744) served in WW2 in the Aif Force and was discharged in 1946

There is a street named after Esther in South Australia called Ester Binks Avenue, in Greenacres - named in her honour

Her name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial

 ----------

           TOO DEARLY LOVED TO EVER BE FORGOTTEN

Read more...