GARDINER, Joseph Hardie George
| Service Number: | W68915 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Volunteer Defence Corps (WA) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 27 February 1911 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Civil Servant (Clerk) |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 19 August 2010, aged 99 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W68915, 1st (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 24 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W68915, Volunteer Defence Corps (WA) | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W68915, 1st (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Joseph Hardie George Gardiner (Service No:W68915) served with the ACMF from 22 March 1942 to 24 October 1945 - 3 Swan Battalion VDC and 1 Battalion VDC. Private Gardiner had previously served with the Militia - 13th Mixed Signals. Private Gardiner's three siblings also served in WWII.
Born in 1911 in Perth WA, Joe was the second of four children of Wilfred (Will) Hardy Gardiner (b1885 in Drouin, Gippsland, Victoria) and Ethel Hannah May Davies (b1886 in Portland, Victoria). Will (a Sleeper Hewer) and Ethel married in 1906 in Perth and lived at Nine Mile Camp Swan, Kalgoorle and Waroona where Will was a Sleeper Hewer before enlisting in WWI. Discharged in 1919 in Melbourne Victoria, Will worked as a Postal Employee and Tram Driver there before returning to Perth in the mid 1920s. Will worked as a Labourer in Perth until the early 1930s when he returned to Victoria, settling at Lakes Entrance where he was a Farmer. Ethel remained in Perth with the children.
Joe entered the Civil Service in Perth in 1927, as a Telegraph Messenger with the Post Master General's Department. By 1940 Joe was a Clerk with the Taxation Office when he married Audrey Agnes Evans (nee Hall; b1910 in Perth, WA). Joe and Audrey settled in Perth where Joe worked for the Taxation Department, retiring in 1971 as a Supervisor (Investigations, Sales Tax and Payroll Tax). Audrey died in 1982 and Joe in 2010.