PIPPARD, George Taylor
| Service Number: | VP1578 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1924 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 1 |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Queenscliff, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 26 June 1889 |
| Home Town: | Queenscliff, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wire rigger |
| Died: | Illness, Australia, 6 June 1945, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Queenscliff Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Presbyterian Plot. Sc. A. Rw 3. Grve 158A. (GRM/3). |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Jan 1924: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, VP1578 | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Warrant Officer Class 1, VP1578 |
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The text below was supplied by Geoffrey GILLON
Warrant Officer Class I George Pippard served with 77 Water Transport Section attached Point Phillip Coastal Artillery. He was 55 and the son of Charles and Isabella Forbes Pippard [nee Taylor] of Queenscliff. He left a widow, Ada Lillian Pippard [nee Bowman] of Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia.
His brother, Lance Corporal Charles William Pippard was a casualty of WWI-he served with the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery-Service Number 292. He died of Influenza and Pneumonia on 25th October 1918, aged 32 years and 9 months. He was the third son of the late Charles and Isabella Pippard, of Stoke Street and was born on the 22nd January 1885 at Queenscliff. He was accepted for commemoration as Great War dead on 21st September 2016.
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