Gordon GENTNER

GENTNER, Gordon

Service Number: Q227651
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
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World War 2 Service

24 May 1942: Involvement Private, Q227651, Page missing from Enlistment Register
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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Biography 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.

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