Gordon Raymond MOYLE

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MOYLE, Gordon Raymond

Service Numbers:	VX60242, VX60242,
Enlisted:	25 July 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/8th Armoured Regiment
Born:	Beulah, Victoria, Australia, 30 October 1920
Home Town:	Portland, Glenelg, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Mechanic
Died:	Mount Richmond, Portland, Victoria, Australia, 3 June 1975, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Portland South Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

25 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX60242, 2nd/8th Armoured Regiment
28 Apr 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX60242,, 2nd/8th Armoured Regiment, embarked Brisbane for Fall River on board Tarooma
27 Jan 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX60242,, 2nd/8th Armoured Regiment, embarked Milne Bay for Townsville
27 Sep 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX60242, 2nd/8th Armoured Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Gordon Raymond Moyle (Service No:VX60242) enlisted in the Army on 25 July 1941 with 2nd Armoured Training Regiment. On 28 April 1943 Private Moyle embarked from Brisbane for Fall River on board the Tarooma with 2/8th Armoured Regiment. He returned from Port Moresby to Townsville on 27 January 1944 and was on leave, returning from a wedding in Mount Gambier, South Australia on 20 March 1944 when the car he was driving crashed into a tree and rolled several times. Private Moyle suffered head injuries and was in a coma for several days. He was Discharged (medically unfit) on 27 September 1944.

Gordon was born in Beulah, Victoria in 1920, youngest of five children of Arthur Moyle (b1883 in Long Plains, South Australia) and Florence Amy Hill (b1882 in Mt Rat, South Australia). Arthur (a Labourer) and Florence married in 1908 in Jeparit, Victoria and lived in Kenmare and Rainbow where Arthur was a Labourer and Farmer.

Gordon worked as a Motor Mechanic in Portland prior to enlisting in the AIF and was in Portland in 1945 when he married Heather Belle Wilson (b1925). By 1949 Gordon and Heather had settled at Mt Richmond, Portland where they raised their family and Gordon was a Farmer. Gordon died in 1975 and Heather in 1998.

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