David Leonard GIBSON FREEMAN

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GIBSON FREEMAN, David Leonard

Service Number:	V52280
Enlisted:	14 August 1940
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2 Medium Regiment AMF
Born:	Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 9 May 1920
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Textile Dyer
Died:	Labrador, Queensland, Australia, 21 August 2004, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Allambe Memorial Park, Gold Coast
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World War 2 Service

14 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V52280
11 Nov 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, V52280, 2 Medium Regiment AMF
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V52280

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Gunner David Leonard Gibson-Freeman (Service No:V52280) served in the AMCF as a Gunner attached to 2 Medium Regiment AMF from 11 August 1940 to 11 November 1941.

Born in 1920 in Melbourne Victoria, David was the second of four children of William James Gibson-Freeman (b1886 in London, England) and Edrie Davie (b1889 in Hampshire, England). William (a Grocer) and Edrie married in 1911 in London arrived in Adelaide SA in 1911 on board the Ballarat, They settled in Melbourne, Victoria where they raised their family and William was a Provisions Merchant and Fur Dyer.

David worked as a Textile Dyer in Melbourne before enlisting in the ACMF and in 1941 married Mona Rose McEwen (b1921 in Sale, Victoria). David and Mona settled in Melbourne where David was an Aircraft Worker following his Dicharge from th ACMF. In the late 1940s David and Mona moved to Sale, Victoria where David was a Storeman before moving to Labrador in Southport, QLD in the early 1960s, where they ran a Grocery Store. David died in 2004 and Mona in 2014.

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