Gordon RIDING

RIDING, Gordon

Service Number: SX426
Enlisted: 20 October 1939
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/3rd Artillery Regiment
Born: Payneham, South Australia, 30 August 1918
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Brighton Glenelg District WW2 Honour Roll
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World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1939: Involvement Private, SX426
20 Oct 1939: Enlisted Gunner, SX426, 2nd/3rd Artillery Regiment , Keswick, SA
20 Oct 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX426
4 Sep 1945: Discharged
4 Sep 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX426

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Gunner Gordon Riding enlisted in 1939 and served in Libya and Greece, and was taken prisoner bythe Germans in Crete in 1941.