LANGFORD, Eric Thomas
| Service Number: | VX69494 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Field Regiment |
| Born: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 3 August 1916 |
| Home Town: | Drouin, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butter Factory Employee |
| Died: | Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, 8 August 2007, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69494, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment | |
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| 23 Oct 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69494, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Eric Thomas Langford (Service No:VX69494) enlisted in the Army on 23 December 1941 and was attached to 2/3 Field Regiment at Discharge on 23 October 1944.
Born in 1916 in Warragul Victoria, Eric was the fifth of eight children of John (Jack) James Langford (b1882 in Rochester, Victoria) and Rhoda Grace Hinkley (b1891 in Casterton, Victoria). Jack (a Labourer) and Rhoda married in 1909 in Warragul, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Jack was a Labourer and Dairy Farmer.
Eric worked as Cream and Butter Grader in a Butter Factory in Drouin and in 1943 married Lillian Mary Banks (b1924 in Tarnagulla, Victoria). Eric and Lillian settled in Wonthaggi where Eric was a Butter Factory Employee before moving to Melbourne in the late 1960s - Eric worked as a Sales Representative. Lillian died in 2003 and Eric in 2007.
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