Harold Gordon MARKS

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MARKS, Harold Gordon

Service Number:	V373297
Enlisted:	15 July 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	24th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Lorquon via Jeparit, Victoria, Australia, 19 October 1892
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Munition Worker
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 October 1976, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

15 Jul 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V373297, 24th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
16 Sep 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V373297, 24th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Gordon Harold Marks (Service No::V373297) served in the ACMF (15 July 1943 - 16 September 1943) with 24 Battalion VDC. Private Marks had served in the AIF in WWI (Service No:1341) with 9th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt from 7 July 1915 to 17 June 1919.

Gordon was born in Lorquon via Jeparit, Victoria in 1892, third of eight children of James Henry Marks (b1859 in Portland, Victoria) and Sarah Marsh (b1862 at Little Plains Station, South Australia). James was a Labourer in 1887 when he and Sarah married in Geelong. They lived in Woorak via Nhill, Lorquon via Jeparit, and Ballarat before settling in Melbourne in the early 1900s. James was a Labourer.

Gordon worked in Murrayville via Ouyen as a Farm Labourer and Farmer before enlisting in WWI. Following his Discharge, he returned to farming at Murrayville and in 1919 married Jessie Elizabeth Crocker (b1896 in Warracknabeal, Victoria) in Brim. Gordon and Jessie lived in Murrayville, Ouyen and Ultima, where they raised their family and Gordon was a Farmer. In the late 1930s they moved to Diamond Creek in Melbourne where Gordon was a Munitions Worker. Jessie died in 1970 and Gordon in 1976.

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