Denis Edgar GARDNER

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GARDNER, Denis Edgar

Service Numbers:	W51818, WX31957
Enlisted:	11 May 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3 Corps Salvage Unit
Born:	Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 27 July 1912
Home Town:	Northam, Northam, Western Australia
Schooling:	The University of Western Australia
Occupation:	Teacher
Died:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 22 March 2001, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia MCB-382386-P4M7L3 FB00037094
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World War 2 Service

11 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, W51818, 3 Corps Salvage Unit
13 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX31957
26 May 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX31957

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Denis Edgar Gardner (Service No:WX31957) initially enlisted in the ACMF as a Corporal (Service No:W51818) and served with 15 Training Battalion, 3rd Field Anti Tank Training Battalion Northam and 9 Salvage Unit before transferring to the AIF on 13 August 1942. Private Gardner was attached to LHQ Australian Army Ordnance Corp (AAOC) School Ammunition Wing when he was Discharged - required in a Reserved Occupation - and employed by the Department of Munitions Melbourne.

Born in 1912 in Kalgoorlie WA, Denis was eldest of five children of George Alexander Gardner (b1876 in Deniliquin, NSW) and Rose Mary Mahony (b1893 in Woodend, Victoria). George (a Miner) and Rose (a Waitress) married in 1911 in Kalgoorlie, WA where they settled and raised their family and George worked as a Pressman until his death in 1928. Rose had moved with her children to Fremantle by 1930 when she remarried to James Arthur Compston (WWI; Service No:253).

Denis completed studies at the University of Western Australia and was a Teacher in Kalgoorlie in 1936 and in Northam in 1942/1943. In 1946 in Melbourne Victoria, Denis was working for the Department of Munitions when he married Alice Maude Payne (b1913 in Perth, WA) - Denis and Alice had met when they were both Teachers in Northam WA in the early 1940s. Denis joined the Civil Service and in 1949 he was a Geologist - he and Alice were at Surfers' Paradise, QLD. Denis and Alice settled in Canberre where they raised their family and Denis worked as a Geologist witht the Department of Natural Resources until retirement in 1977. Alice died in Canberra in 1970 and Denis returned to Fremantle by 1980, where he died in 2001.

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