HOLDSWORTH, Gavan
| Service Number: | V500039 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Terang, Victoria, Australia, 22 December 1918 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Process Worker |
| Died: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 2000, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Barrabool Hills Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V500039 | |
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| 15 Dec 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V500039 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Gavan Holdsworth (Service No:V500039) served in the ACMF with 6th Infantry Training Battalion and 4th Australian Brigade from 4 August 1942 to 15 December 1942 (Medical Discharge).
Gaven was born in Terang, Victoria in 1918, eldest of five children of Ernest Holdsworth (b1890 in Geelong, Victoria) and second wife Annie Holloway (b1892 in Benalla, Victoria). Ernest was a Widowed Farmer with one child in 1918 when he and Annie married in Casterton, Victoria. They settled in Mortlake where they raised their family and Ernest was a Farmer/Grazier.
Gaven worked as a Farm Hand in Mortlake, and in 1937 in Geelong, Victoria married Isabella Halliday Robb Walker (b1918 in Fifeshire, Scotland) - Isabella immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1926, arriving in Sydney, NSW on board the Pakeha. By 1942 Gaven and Isabella were living in Melbourne, where Gaven was a Process Worker. In the mid 1940s they moved to Mortlake, where Gaven was a Farmer before settling in the Geelong region in the late 1950s - Gaven worked as a Station Hand and Labourer. Gaven died in 2000 and Isabella in 2013.
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