GENTNER, Gordon
| Service Number: | Q227651 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 May 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 November 1913 |
| Home Town: | Eastern Heights, Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | New Farm State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Metal Turner |
| Died: | Griffiths, New South Wales, Australia, 3 October 1984, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Batemans Bay Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 May 1942: | Involvement Private, Q227651, Page missing from Enlistment Register | |
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| 24 May 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 24 May 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q227651, 9th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q227651, 9th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Gordon Gentner (Service No:Q227651) served with the ACMF (9 Battalion VDC) from 24 May 1942 to 21 October 1945.
Born in 1913 in Brisbane QLD, Gordon was the third of four children of Friedrich Thomas Albert Gentner (b1885 in Brisbane, QLD) and Mary Elizabeth Pattison (b1884 in Brisbane, QLD). Friedrich (a Warehouseman) and Mary married in 1906 in Brisbane QLD where they settled and raised their family and Friedrich worked as a Warehouseman/Storeman until his death in 1930.
Gordon worked as a Fitter in Nundah, QLD where, in 1939, he married Ethel May Kliese (b1918 in Nundah, Brisbane, QLD). Gordon and Ethel lived in Ipswich where Gordon was a Metal Turner in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF. By 1958 Gordon and Ethel had settled in Sydney NSW where Gordon worked as a Fitter and Turner with the NSW Department of Technical Education. Following his Resignation in the mid 1960s, Gordon and Ethel settled at Griffiths, NSW. Gordon died in 1984 and Ethel in 2006.