Margaret Amelia BAHLINGER

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BAHLINGER, Margaret Amelia

Service Number:	NF462697
Enlisted:	6 July 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Leeton, New South Wales, Australia, 11 August 1922
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Saleswoman (Dymocks Books)
Died:	Blakehurst, New South Wales, Australia, 22 November 2012, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

6 Jul 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF462697
11 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NF462697

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Margaret Amelia Bahlinger (Service No:NF462697) enlisted in the AWAS on 6 July 1943 and was attached to No 2 AWAS Training Depot before posting to 2 Australian Ordnance Stores Coy and Returned Stores Depot (RSD) Sydney - graded Storekeeper. Private Bahlinger was attached to RSD at Discharge on 11 December 1945. Sibling Catherine (Service No:NF462700) also served in the AWAS.

Born in Leeton, NSW in 1922, Margaret was youngest of three children of Daniel Ferdinand Arthur Bahlinger (b1885 in Gardsthau, Germany) and Lucy Elizabeth O'Brien (b1886 in Glasgow, Scotland). Daniel (a Farmer) and Lucy (a Dresssmaker) married in 1915 in Narranderra, NSW and settled in Leeton where they raised their family and Daniel was a Farmer and Labourer. In the late 1930's the family moved to Sydney where Daniel was a Labourer and, following retirement in the late 1940's, he and Lucy moved to Portland, Victoria.

Margaret was working as a Salesgirl at Dymocks Bookstall at St James Railway Station, Sydney in 19343 when she enlisted in the AWAS. In 1946 in Sydney, Margaret married Clifford Allen Redwin (b1913 in Sydney, NSW) - Clifford was a Widower and had served in the Army (Service No:NX88966). Margaret and Clifford settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Clifford was a Manufacturing Chemist and Manager. Clifford died in 1998 and Margaret in 2012.

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