BINKS, Esther Mary Ada
| Service Number: | 91692 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Aircraftwoman |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale |
| Born: | Camden, South Australia, Australia, 27 June 1923 |
| Home Town: | Klemzig, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Westbourne Park School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness, No. 2 RAAF Hospital, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia,, 13 May 1942, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
Dudley Park Cemetery, South Australia Section A, Row 6, Grave 242S |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Daw Park Repatriation Hospital WW2 Women of the Armed Forces Who Died HR, St Marys SA Army Nursing Sisters/Women Memorial Wall |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Jan 1942: | Involvement 91692 | |
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| 4 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
| 4 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91692 | |
| 13 May 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91692, No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale, WAAAFS | |
| 13 May 1942: | Involvement | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Esther Mary Ada BINKS was born in Camden, South Australia on 27th June 1923
Her parents were Joseph William Ernest BINKS & Emily Harvey EDWARDS who married in the Registry Office, Islington, London in 1920 - they had 4 known children
1. Ernest Dudley
2. Esther Mary Ada
3. Grace Rhonda
4. Betty Clara
She enlisted in Adelaide on 4th January, 1942 and was an Aircraftwoman, 4th class with the No. 1 Engineering School of the WAAAFS - she was with the Head Quarters, No. 2 Unit on her death
Esther died of Illness at the No. 2 RAAF Hospital in Ascot Vale, Victoria on 13th May, 1942 and is buried in Dudley Park Cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia
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Her father Joseph William Ernest (Ernie) BINKS served in WW1 (SN2118 and returned to Australia in 1917 & was discharged in 1918 - he returned to London to Marry in 1920
Her brother Ernest Dudley BINKS (SN48744) served in WW2 in the Aif Force and was discharged in 1946
There is a street named after Esther in South Australia called Ester Binks Avenue, in Greenacres - named in her honour
Her name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial
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