LYONS, Gordon Lindsay
Service Number: | V374631 |
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Enlisted: | 28 January 1942 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | Volunteer Defence Corps (SA) |
Born: | Murchison, Victoria, 7 May 1907 |
Home Town: | Murchison, Greater Shepparton, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Channel Gaurd |
Died: | Natural causes, Murchison, Victoria, 10 February 2001, aged 93 years |
Cemetery: |
Murchison Cemetery, Victoria |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
28 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Private, V374631, Murchison, Victoria | |
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28 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, V374631, 16th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
29 Jan 1942: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, V374631, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces | |
1 Oct 1945: | Discharged Private, V374631, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA) | |
1 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, V374631, 16th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Jeffery Lyons
When Gordon Lindsay Lyons was born on May 7, 1907, in Murchison, Victoria, his father, John, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 32.
He married Thelma Ives Smith in 1932 in Victoria. They had two children during their marriage.
Gordon Lindsay Lyons enlisted in the military on 1942, when he was 34 years old.
He died on February 10, 2001, in his hometown, at the age of 93, and was buried there.