Gordon Stanley BUTLER

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BUTLER, Gordon Stanley

Service Number:	VX80488
Enlisted:	30 June 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Division Cavalry Regiment
Born:	Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia, 26 January 1918
Home Town:	Rockbank, Melton, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 May 1985, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

30 Jun 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX80488
19 Dec 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX80488, embarked 13 Australian Army Personnel Staging Camp, Oonoonba (13 APSC) for Port Moresby per SS Katoomba
26 Jun 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signaller, VX80488, 9th Division Cavalry Regiment , evacuated to Australia per SS Duntroon
23 Oct 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX80488

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Signalman Gordon Stanley Butler (Service No:VX80488) served in the Army from 30 June 1942 to 23 October 1943 and was attached to 9th Division Cavalty Regiment at Discharge (medically unfit). Signalman Butler was in New Guinea with Corps Signals from 19 December 1942 to 26 June 1943.

Born in 1918 in Melbourne Victoria, Gordon was the third of four children of Vivian George Butler (b1884 in Newstead, Victoria) and Elizabeth Sutherland (b1886 in Numurkah, Victoria). Vivian (a Farmer) and Elizabeth married in 1912 in Melbourne where they settled and raised their family and Vivian was a Farmer.

Gordon was a Farmer at Rockbank in Melbourne when he enlisted in the Army in 1942, and in 1947 married Dulcie May Elefson (b1919 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Dulcie was a Clerk in Melbourne. Gordon and Dulcie settled in Melbourne where Gordon was a Civil Servant - he joined the Department of Social Services (later Social Security) as a Clerk in 1949 and was Regional Manager when he retired in 1983. Gordon died in 1985 and Dulcie in 2008.

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