Kevin Henry WILSON

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WILSON, Kevin Henry

Service Number:	V326221
Enlisted:	24 September 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 1 June 1922
Home Town:	Albury, Albury Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Refrigeration Mechanic
Died:	Albury, New South Wales, 4 December 2011, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Glenmorus Gardens Albury Crematorium and Lawn Cemetery,New South Wales
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World War 2 Service

24 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V326221
13 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V326221

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Kevin Henry Wilson (Service No:V326221) enlisted in the ACMF as a Private and served with 5th and 13th Army Troop Coys (ATC) and 56th Australian DCRE (Works) - graded Artifiicer. In 1944 he was graded Refrigeration Mechanic, and promoted to Corporal and attached to 13 Australian Maintenance Platoon at Discharge on 13 December 1945. Sibling Keith also served with the ACMF.

Kevin was born in Albury, NSW in 1922, second of three children of John Frederick Wilson (b1884 in Albury, NSW) and Dorothea Catherine Schwarfenberg (b1896 in Albury, NSW). John (a Cordial and Ice Manufacturer) and Dorothea married in 1912 in Albury, NSW where they settled and raised their family and John was a Cordial and Ice Manufacturer.

Kevin worked in Albury for his father as a Refrigeration Mechanic before enlisting in the ACMF. In 1942 in Albury NSW he married Betty Lola Berry (b1924 in Albury, NSW). Kevin and Betty settled in Albury, where they raised their family and Kevin worked as a Refrigeration Mechanic before becoming a partner with his father and brother in JF Wilson & Sons Cordial and Ice Manufacturers in 1953. Betty died in 2004 and Kevin in 2011.

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