BALDOCK, Alan Stanley
| Service Number: | SX2434 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 April 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Richmond, SA, 12 June 1908 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (SA), City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Natural Causes, 3 August 1998, aged 90 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Beltana WW2 Roll of Honour, South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Apr 1940: | Involvement Corporal, SX2434, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX2434, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
| 23 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX2434 | |
| 25 Oct 1943: | Discharged | |
| 25 Oct 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX2434 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Alan and his older brother Frank enlisted to serve during World War 2 whilst they were living and working the Flinders Ranges area in Beltana. Alan enlisted in the Army, 23 April 1940 as a Corporal in 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion. He was discharged 25 October 1943.
Tragically, during the Second World War Alan was shot in the head. Nina remembers that his injury was so bad he could not ever drive again, but he came every fortnight to see me without fail. He could only catch the tram because he wasn't allowed to drive.
Alan married Dulcie Eileen Gregor on 11 September 1943. Nina recalls that Dulcie was from Beltana in the mid north of South Australia. They had three boys:
Brian (married Faye)
Robin (married Kaylene)
and Michael (married Lynette).
Alan, nicknamed ‘Snowie’, died in 1998.
When Dulcie died aged 89 on 9 December 1999 at the Aldersgate Nursing home in Flexistowe, she was a grandmother of twelve and a great grandmother of three.
Courtesy of West Torrens Historical Society (drive.google.com)