George Newton SWINSON

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SWINSON, George Newton

Service Numbers:	N73705, NX109525
Enlisted:	7 September 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Fortress / Coastal Artillery & Supporting Elements
Born:	Molong, New South Wales, Australia, 26 July 1911
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Officer
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 November 1960, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW North Terrace - Section: Garden 56; Disposition - Ashes Sydney Morning Herald: Funeral Notice 11 November 1980
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World War 2 Service

7 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N73705
10 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, N73705, Fortress / Coastal Artillery & Supporting Elements
11 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX109525
21 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX109525

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal George Newton Swinson (Service Nos:N73705/NX109525) initially served in the ACMF as a Private with South Head Fort Coy RAE (7 September 1940 - 10 August 1942), before enlisting in the AIF on 11 August 1942. Corporal Swinson served with 19 Fort Coy and the Australian New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGU) in New Guinea - 10 February 1943 to 19 June 1944 and 11 May 1945 to 10 February 1946, and was attached to Paga Battery NGF at Discharge on 21 February 1946.

George was born in Molong NSW in 1911, eldest of four children of Arthur Fitzgerald Swinson (b1868 in Northamptonshire, England) and his second wife Ida Elizabeth Miller (b1882 in Molong, NSW). Arthur had immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1895, arriving in Sydney on board the Monowai, and worked as an Accountant with the City Bank in Bowral NSW before marrying his first wife in Sydney in 1897. Moving to Manildra via Orange in 1908, Arthur was Manager of the City Bank in 1909 when he and his first wife Divorced. Arthur and Ida married in Sydney in 1910, and settled in Manildra where Arthur was Manager of the City Bank. Arthur continued working as Manager with the City Bank - the family living in Kempsey in the early1930s, and in Coogee by the late 1930s when Arthur died.

George worked in Sydney as a Bank Clerk before enlisting in the Army, and in Sydney in 1941, married Beatrice (Bea) Maud MacDonald (b1918 in Rylston, NSW). George and Bea lived in Katoomba and Sydney, where they raised their family and George worked as a Bank Officer until the late 1950s, when he retired and worked as a Meter Reader. George died in 1980 and Bea in 1988.

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