PAINE, George Lindsay Wray
| Service Number: | V77635 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Newport, Victoria, Australia, 25 August 1917 |
| Home Town: | Newport, Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cartage Contractor |
| Died: | Newport, Victoria, Australia, 26 July 1958, aged 40 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V77635 | |
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| 25 Jan 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V77635 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private George Lindsay Wray Paine (Service No:V77635) enlisted in the ACMF on 20 August 1940 and was a Driver attached to AASC. Private Paine was Discharged on 20 January 1943. Siblings Vere and Walter also served in WWII.
Born in 1917 in Williamstown, Melbourne Victoria, George was the eldest of three children of George Alexander Paine (b1895 in Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria) and Hilda Mavis Boyd (b1894 in Melbourne, Victoria). George Snr (a Cartage Contractor) and Hilda married in 1915 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and George Snr was a Cartage Contractor and, in the 1930's a Councillor.
George worked for his father's Cartage Company as a Truck Driver and in 1942 in Melbounre married Olive Catherine Pearce (1921 in Melbourne, Victoria). George and Olive settled in Newport where George was a Cartage Contractor/Carrier. He died in 1958 after falling off his cattle truck - although he had no visible injuries, he died at home shortly afterwards from a heart attack. Olive died in 1990.
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