BUNKER, George Edward Noble
| Service Number: | WX21242 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Salvage Company |
| Born: | Boulder, Western Australia, 12 July 1905 |
| Home Town: | Kendenup, Plantagenet Shire, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 16 May 1983, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Ashes scattered over garden at Karrakatta Cemetery The Western Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX21242 | |
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| 16 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX21242, 1st Divisional Salvage Company, embarked Cairns for service at Tarakan and Balikapan via Morotai on board Sea Barb | |
| 14 Nov 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX21242, 1st Divisional Salvage Company, emplaned Balikapan for Brisbane | |
| 19 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX21242 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private George Edward Noble Bunker (Service No:WX21242) enlisted in the Army on 18 March 1942 and served in Morotai, Tarakan and Balikapan with 1st Australian Armoured Brigade Salvage Unit (16 March 1945 - 14 November 1945). Private Bunker was attached to 1st Salvage Unit at Discharge on 19 November 1945. Siblings Jim, Alan and Harry also served in WWII.
George was born in Boulder, WA in 1905, third of eight children of George Edward Bunker Snr (b1876 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Annie Ansit Williams (b1882 in Melbourne, Victoria). George Snr and Annie married in Perth, WA in 1901 and lived in Kalgoorlie and Boulder where they raised their family and George Snr was a Fireman. By 1910 George Snr and Annie had moved to Tenterdin via Albany WA where they settled on Clifton Hill Farm, before settling at Happy Valley Farm in Mortigallup where George Snr was a Farmer.
George worked in Northam WA as a Farm Hand from the mid 1920s and in Kendenup in 1930 married Frances Gertrude Sandilands (b1910 in Boulder, WA). George and Frances settled in Kendenup via Albany where George was a Farmer before moving to Perth in the early 1950s. George died in 1983 and Frances in 2004.