SIMMONDS, Gordon Horace
| Service Number: | T43219 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1 December 1920 |
| Home Town: | Legana, West Tamar, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Store Assistant |
| Died: | Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia, 11 October 1972, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T43219 | |
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| 26 Aug 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T43219 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Gordon Horace Simmonds (Service No:T43219) enlisted in the ACMF on 10 March 1941 with 8th Australian Training Coy Brighton Camp. Sapper Simmonds served with 12/50th Battalion, 12 Field Coy and HQ Tasmania Line of Communication Area. Sapper Simmonds was Disharged (medically unfit) on 26 August 1943.
Born in 1921 in Launceston Tasmania, Gordon was the fourth of nine children of Leslie Charles Simmonds (b1893 at Turner's Marsh, Tasmania) and Helen (Nellie) Irene Amy Rankin (b1895 in Launceston, Tasmania). Leslie (a Ploughman) and Nellie married in 1915 in Launceston, Tasmania and settled in Lalla and Beaconsfield where they raised their family and Leslie worked as a Ploughman, Labourer and Orchardist.
Gordon worked as a Store Assistant before his enlistment in the ACMF, and in 1944 married June Isabel Colgrave (b1926 in Launceston, Tasmania). Gordon and June lived in Beaconsfield and Legane where Gordon worked as a Labourer. Following Gordon's death in 1972, June remarried and died in 2005.