GARDINER, Wilfred Hardy
| Service Number: | 6290 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 March 1915, Mustered as Trumpeter, later as Driver |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 16th Army Service Corps |
| Born: | Drouin, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 8 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Waroona, Waroona, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sleeper Hewer |
| Died: | Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 10 June 1949, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bairnsdale Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6290, 6th Infantry Brigade Train, Mustered as Trumpeter, later as Driver | |
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| 22 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 6290, 6th Infantry Brigade Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 6290, 6th Infantry Brigade Train, HMAT Afric, Melbourne | |
| 1 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 6290, 16th Army Service Corps, embarked England for Melbourne per HT karmala | |
| 18 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 6290, 16th Army Service Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver Wilfred Hardy Gardiner (Service No:6290) enlisted in the AIF on 5 March 1915, musterining initially as a Trumpeter and then remustering as a Driver. Driver Gardiner served in Egypt and France, embarking from Melbourne on 22 May 1915 on board HMAT A19 Afric, and from Alexandria for Marseilles in March 1916. On 1 July 1919 Driver Gardiner embarked from England for Melbourne on board HT Karmala, and was Discharged on 18 November 1919.
The sixth of nine children, Will was born in 1885 in Drouin, Gippsland Victoria to Samuel (Harry) Henry Gardiner (b1847 in London, England) and Emily Jane Fletcher (b1853 in Sussex, England). Harry (a Groom) and Emily married in 1875 in Melbourne, Victoria and lived in Gippsland where Harry worked as a Groom and Coach Proprietor. By the late 1880s Harry and his family were living in Melbourne, where Harry worked as a Driver and Tram Employee.
Will was in Perth WA in the early 1900s, working as a Sleeper Hewer and in 1906 married Ethel Hannah May Davies (b1886 in Portland, Victoria). Will and Ethel lived at 9 Mile Camp in Canning and in Waroona where Will was a Sleeper Hewer when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge in 1919, Will worked in Melbourne as a Postal Employee and Tram Driver before returning to Perth in 1925 - where he worked as a Labourer. Will moved back to Victoria in the 1930s, settling at Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale where he was a Farmer. Ethel died in Perth in 1941 and Will in Victoria in 1949.
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