Gilbert Roy BINNS

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BINNS, Gilbert Roy

Service Numbers:	21641, TX14384
Enlisted:	3 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/6th Field Regiment
Born:	Scamander, Tasmania, Australia, 19 November 1911
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Textile Worker
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 2 August 1980, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

3 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, 21641, 2nd/6th Field Regiment
21 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX14384
20 Apr 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, 21641, 2nd/6th Field Regiment
30 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX14384

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Gilbert Roy Binns (Service No:TX14384) initially served in the ACMF (Gunner; Service No:21641) with 6th Field Regiment from 3 March 1942 to 20 April 1943 and was 'In the Field' when he enlisted in the AIF on 21 Aoril 1943. Private Binns was attached to 32 Australian Infantry Training Battalion when he was Discharged on 30 October 1945.

Born in 1911 at Scamander in Tasmania, Gilbert was the youngest of nine children of Charles Binns (b1867 in Fingal, Tasmania) and Georgenia Lavenia Dunn (b1870 in Fingal, Tasmania) Charles (a Labourer) and Georgenia married in 1898 in Fingal and lived in St Mary's, Scamander, Launceston and Devonport where Charles worked as a Labourer. In 1915 Charles was a Labourer in Devonport at the Don Tramways Works when he Deserted his wife and children and left for QLD where he worked as a Labourer in Mackay and Charters Towers.

Gilbert was a Textile Worker in Launceston in 1940 when he married Dulcie May Simmonds (b1920 in Launceston, Tasmania). Gilbert and Dulcie settled in Launceston where they raised their family and Gilbert was a Textile Worker and Labourer. Gilbert died in 1980 and Dulcie in 2004.

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