Gordon Edward INGRAM

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INGRAM, Gordon Edward

Service Numbers:	W25440, W69778
Enlisted:	3 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Collie, Western Australia, 10 February 1921
Home Town:	Collie, Collie, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Coal Miner (Wheeler)
Died:	Brain Tumour, Fremantle, Western Australia, 24 April 1986, aged 65 years
Cemetery:	Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

3 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W25440, 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
3 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W69778
26 Aug 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W69778, 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W69778

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Gordon Edward Ingram (Service Nos:W25440/W69778) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 3 March 1941, and re enlisted on 3 May 1942, serving with 4th Battalion (WA) VDC until 26 August 1944. His father (Ernest) served in WWI, and brother (Robert) served in WWII.

Gordon was born in Collie, Western Australia in 1921, tenth of eleven children of Ernest Clarence Ingram (b1876 at Vegetable Creek, New South Wales) and his second wife Winifred (Winnie) Gillett (b1884 in Lancashire, England) - Winnie (a Cotton Spinner) immigrated in 1901, arriving in Maryborough QLD on board the Duke of Norfolk. Ernest and Winnie moved to Western Australia, and married in 1907 in Collie, where they settled and raised their family at Collie Burn via Collie. Ernest worked as a Coal Miner, and served in WWI (Private; Service No:3387). Following his Discharge from the Army, he and Winnie settled in Collie, where Ernest was a Miner and Taxi Driver until his death in 1933.

Gordon was working as a Coal Miner (Wheeler) when he enlisted in the ACMF in 1941 - and married his first wife Grace Mae Cull (b1921 in Katanning, Western Australia). Gordon and Grace divorced in 1945, and Gordon was a Miner in Collie in 1949 when he remarried to Jeanne Western (b1929 in Northampton, Western Australia). Gordon and Jeanne settled in Cannington then Fremantle, where they raised their family and Gordon was a Wharf Worker (Lumper) until his death in 1986. Jeanne died in 2008.

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