Allan Fredrick John TINKLER

TINKLER, Allan Fredrick John

Service Number: VX113009
Enlisted: 21 July 1942
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 4th Field Ambulance
Born: Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, 28 February 1917
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 February 2003, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

21 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX113009, 4th Field Ambulance
20 Mar 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX113009, 4th Field Ambulance

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Allan Frederick John Tinkler (Service Nos:VX113009/V30450) was in Queensland when he enlisted in the AIF on 21 July 1942. He was a Corporal attached to 4 Field Ambulance when he was Discharged on 20 March 1944.

Born in 1917 in Melbourne Victoria, Allan was the youngest of three children of John Henry Tinkler (b1878 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Annie Ethel Coles (b1876 in Melbourne, Victoria). John (a Linotype Operator) and Annie married in 1902 in Melbourne where they settled and raised their family.

Allan worked as a Clerk in Melbourne and in 1945 married Jessie May Lang (b1918 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Jessie also worked as a Clerk. Allan and Jessie settled in Melbourne where Allan worked as an Agent, Proprietor and Clerical Officer. Jessie died in 1999 and Allan in 2003.

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