WALL, Bernard Frank
| Service Number: | VX135487 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 April 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Violet Town, Victoria, Australia, 30 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Violet Town, Strathbogie, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, 27 March 1993, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pine Lodge Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Apr 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX135487 | |
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| 11 Jan 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX135487 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Bernard was the second of three children of George Shadrack Wall (b1889 in Gowangardie, Victoria) and Nicholes Brown (b1892 in Gowangardie, Victoria). George (a Farmer) and Nicholes married 1916 in Gowangardie where they settled and raised their family.
Bernard was a Farmer when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1943 in Alice Springs, NT - he was serving in the ACMF (Service No:V321145). Bernard was a Private (Service No:VX135487) attached to 121 General Transport Coy when he was Discharged in January 1944.
Returning to Victoria in 1944, Bernard married Iris Annie Gibbs (b1919 in Violet Town, Gowangardie, Victoria) and the couple settled in Katandra in Shepparton where Bernard was a Farmer. In the early 1950s they established their farm 'Lyndon" at Cosgrove in Benalla, Victoria. Bernard died in 1993 and Iris in 2014.