WILSON, Gordon Delville
| Service Numbers: | R29951, 29951 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 March 1946 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Cerberus (Shore) |
| Born: | Kadina, South Australia, 5 February 1928 |
| Home Town: | Port Broughton, Barunga West, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Whyalla, South Australia, 9 August 2000, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Whyalla Cemetery, S.A. The South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
Korean War Service
| 12 Mar 1946: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, R29951, HMAS Cerberus (Shore) | |
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| 25 Jun 1950: | Involvement Able Seaman, 29951 | |
| 28 Aug 1957: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 29951, HMAS Cerberus (Shore) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Able Seaman Gordon Delville Wilson (Service No:29951) enlisted in the RAN on 12 March 1946 as an Ordinary Seaman attached to HMAS Cerberus. A/S Wilson served with diverse ships, includng HMAS Sydney (27 October 1953 to 2 June 1954) and was attached to HMAS Cerberus at Discharge on 28 August 1957. Both his siblings (Verna and Baxter) served in WWII, and his father William (Private; Service No:414) served in WWI.
Born in Kadina, South Australia in 1928, Tug was the youngest of three children of William Leslie Wilson (b1891 in Maldon, Victoria) and his second wife Clarissa Nieman Roberts (b1896 in Malalla, South Australia). William (a Widower) and Clarissa married in 1918 at Port Wakefield, South Australia and lived in Kadina, Yorktown and Port Broughton where they raised their family and William was a Butcher. William had moved from Victoria to Wallaroo, South Australia by 1913, and was a Restaurantkeeper when he married his first wife. Following her death in 1915, William served in the AIF in WWI.
Tug was working at Port Broughton as a Labourer in 1946 when he enlisted in the RAN. In the early 1950s, Tug married Barbara Joan (b1931) and following his Discharge from the RAN in 1957, they lived in Port MacDonnell and Whyalla. In 2005 Barbara was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for her community service as a foster carer of children with diverse needs. Tug died in 2000 and Barbara in 2018.
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