DALEY, Gordon Edward Charles
| Service Numbers: | Q128177, QX42910 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 5 September 1917 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2 January 1987, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Sep 1940: | Involvement Craftsman, Q128177, also QX42910 | |
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| 5 Sep 1940: | Involvement Craftsman, QX42910, also Q128177 | |
| 5 Sep 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 5 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX42910 | |
| 29 Dec 1944: | Discharged | |
| 29 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX42910 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gordon was the youngest of two sons of Henry Bartholomew Daley (born 1892 at Toppers Mountain near Tingah, NSW) and Elsie Ivy Ellenor Booth (born 1895 in Moree, NSW). Henry, a Teamster, and Elsie married at Inglewood near Ipswich, QLD in 1914. They lived at Yarraman on the Darling Downs where Henry continued working as a Teamster. By 1936 the family had moved to Ipswich, QLD and Henry and his two sons were Butchers.
Gordon enlisted in the Army in September 1940 and was a Craftsman (Service Nos: QX42910/Q128177) with 6 AO W/S until his Discharge in December 1944. Older brother Lyal, also a Butcher, was a Private (Service No: QX516699) with 1 Ordnance Corps.
Gordon married Jeanne Agnes Ferguson (born 1918 in Brisbane, QLD) in December 1942 in Ipswich and was Discharged in December 1944.
Gordon and Jeanne moved to the Brisbane region, where he was a Butcher in Scarborough and New Farm. Jeanne died in 1976 and Gordon in 1987.
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