Alan Balmain SIMMONS

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SIMMONS, Alan Balmain

Service Number:	V10098
Enlisted:	2 January 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Calignee, Victoria, Australia, 31 August 1892
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 3 August 1957, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maddingley General Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

2 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, V10098
24 Dec 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, V10098

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Alan Balmain Simmons (Service No:V10098) enlisted in the ACMF on 2 January 1941 and was attached to No 4 Veterinary Hospital. He was attached to 6 Auxiliary Horse Transport Coy when he was Discharged on 24 December 1943. Sergeant Simmons had also served in WWI (Service No:1947) as did his siblings Ian Grant (Service no:2728) and Norman King (Service No:519).

Born in 1892 in Calignee, Gippsland Victoria, Alan was the fourth of eight children of Edward King Simmons (b1860 at Eagle Point, Gippsland, Victoria) and Margaret Grant Black (b1862 in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria). Edward (a Farmer) and Margaret married in 1886 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled at Hazelwood in Morwell, Victoria where they raised their family and Edward was a Farmer. Edward died in 1906 and Margaret in 1914.

Alan was a Farmer at Hazelwood, Morwell, Victoria until the late 1920s when he worked as a Labourer at Lorne in Corangamite Victoria. In the early 1930s he had moved to Melbourne, Victoria where he worked as a Labourer, Mill Hand and Storeman. In 1945 Alan married Nancy Elaine Madden (nee Crisp; b1910 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria)) - Nancy was a Widow. The couple settled in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria where Alan worked as a Labourer. Alan died in 1957 and Nancy in 1988.

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