Jack Sidney GILMORE

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GILMORE, Jack Sidney

Service Numbers:	V205532, 436374
Enlisted:	23 December 1941
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	6th Field Ambulance
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 October 1923
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 August 2015, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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World War 2 Service

23 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V205532, 6th Field Ambulance
15 Dec 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V205532, 6th Field Ambulance
16 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 436374
20 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 436374

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flying Officer Jack Sidney Gilmore (Service No:436374) first served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V205532) with 6th Australian Field Ambulance from 23 December 1941 to 15 December 1942. He was Discharged in Perth, WA to enlist in the RAAF on 16 December 1942 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth as an Aircraftman II - mustered as Guard - and was attached to 14 Squadron Pearce and No 3 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Amberley QLD. Promoted to Leading Aircraftman in May 1943, he was attached to No 4 Initial Training School (ITS) Victor Harbour, No 11 Elementary Flight Training School (EFTS) Benalla, and No 2 Embarkation Depot Bradfield Park before attachment to the RCAF in September 1943. As Pilot Officer, he attended No 7 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Fort Macleod in Alberta. Promoted to Flying Officer in 1944, he served in Canada, the UK, Bahamas, Bombay, Colombo and Kankesanturai (Sri Lanka) with Air Command SEA and 160 Squadron. FO Gilmore flew Anson, Mitchell and Liberator aircraft, and disembarked in Adelaide, South Australia on 25 October 1945. He was attached to 354 Squadron at Discharge on 20 December 1945.

Jack was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1923, youngest of three children of Charles Samuel Gilmore (b1888 in Kerang, Victoria) and Myrtle (Mertie) Amy Tassell (b1894 in Warrenhelp, Victoria). Charles (a Clerk) and Mertie married in 1915 in Tooradin, Victoria and settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Charles worked as a Bookkeeper and Accountant.

Jack was a Bank Clerk in Melbourne prior to enlistment in WWII, work he resumed in Melbourne following his Discharge. In 1949 in Geelong, Victoria he married Betty Doreen Herd (b1925 in Geelong, Victoria) - Betty was working in Geelong as a Clerk. Immediately following their marriage, Jack and Betty moved to Jerilderie, NSW where Jack was a Bank Clerk before returning to settle in Melbourne in 1954. In the early 1960s Jack became a Newsagent in Dromana, and in the early 1970s moved back to Melbourne where he had a Newsagency in Heathmont. Betty died in 1998 and Jack in 2015.

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