ADAMSON, Mervin Clarence Frederick
| Service Numbers: | V265696, VX122222 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Sale, Victoria, Australia, 5 December 1912 |
| Home Town: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 23 July 1997, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Allambe Memorial Park, Gold Coast |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V265696 | |
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| 30 Dec 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX122222 | |
| 27 Jan 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX122222 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Mervin Clarence Frederick Adamson (Service Nos:V265696/VX122222) initially served in the Militia (Private; Service No:333211) with 52nd and 37th Battalions Sale from 1 January to 24 August 1939. On 1 January 1942 he enlisted in the ACMF as a Private, and was attached to 1 AAMC Training Battalion when he transferred to the AIF on 30 December 1942. Appointed Lance Corporal on 20 December 1943, he served with 34 AITB Watsonia and 71 Australian General Hospital (AGH) Tabragalba. Lance Corporal Adamson was attached to 71 AGH at Discharge on 27 January 1944 (Medically Unfit for Miltary Service). Siblings Kelvin and Clem also served in WWII.
Mervin was born in Sale, Victoria in 1912, second of nine children of Frederick (Fred) Ernest Adamson (b1885 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Edith Kate Skeen (b1887 in Sale, Victoria). Fred was a Driver in Sale in 1911 when he and Edith married. They settled in Sale, where they raised their family and Fred worked as a Driver, Grocery Shop Assistant and Dairyman.
Mervin worked in Sale as a Labourer and Driver, and in 1936 married Jessie Nellthorpe-Quibell (b1913 in Sale, Victoria). Mervin and Jessie settled in Sale (with a short stint at Bushy Park in Maffra in 1941 where Mervin was a Farm hand), where they raised their family and Mervin worked as a Bread Carter/Driver. Following Retirement in the late 1960s, Mervin and Jessie moved to the Gold Coast, QLD where Mervin died in 1997 and Jessie in 1999).
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