MASTERS, Gilbert Henry
| Service Number: | WX10153 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Essex, England, 13 July 1920 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Fairbridge Farm School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 18 June 1999, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Padbury, Western Australia Acacia Court, 727, aged 77 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 14 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX10153, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 Feb 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 Apr 1944: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Oct 1945: | Promoted Staff Sergeant, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX10153, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Gilbert, aged 9, and his younger brother Rupert, aged 8, arrived in WA in 1931 as part of the Fairbridge Child Migrant Scheme. They travelled as third-class passengers aboard Oronsay. Their mother Hilda had died in 1925, aged 35, in Dudley.
Gilbert's birth was registered in Dudley in 1921 (Sep qtr, 6b 1826), although both he and his brother gave Essex as their birthplace when enlisting. They gave each other's names as their next of kin.
Gilbert enlisted in Dec 1940. At the time, he was working as a farm hand in Greenhills, a small Wheatbelt town near York.
After a period of service in the Middle East with the 2/28th Batallion, Gilbert was returned to WA briefly in early 1943, following a Court of Enquiry. It was during this period that he married a Wheatbelt local, Phyllis BROWNE. He went on to serve in New Guinea and was promoted several times.
Gilbert died in 1999, aged 77.