EASTON, Robert Gordon
| Service Numbers: | Q14385, QX60405 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 August 1914 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 September 1974, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 17 Mar 1941: | Involvement Sapper, Q14385, also QX60405 | |
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| 17 Mar 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 1 Mar 1944: | Involvement Sapper, QX60405, also Q14385 | |
| 1 Mar 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60405 | |
| 10 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, QX60405, 11 Field Coy | |
| 10 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60405 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Robert (aka Gordon) was the fourth of seven children of Robert Easton (born 1878 in Scotland) and Ann Elizabeth Cantlay (born 1878 in Toowoomba, QLD). Robert Snr, a Steam Train Fireman in Brisbane, QLD, married Ann in Toowoomba, QLD in 1907. Robert and Ann raised their family in Brisbane, QLD.
Robert Jnr was living in Brisbane, QLD when he enlisted in the Army in 1940. He served as a Sapper (Service Nos: Q13485/QX60405) in New Guinea and was with 11 Field Coy when he was Discharged in May 1946. Robert's brothers served with the RAAF in WWII - John as a Leading Aircraftman (Service No: 76564) and Allan as a Leading Aircraftman (Service No: 76457). Brother-in-Law Stanley Lewin was a Flight Sergeant (Service No: 8697).
Following his Discharge, Robert returned to brisbane, QLD where he lived with his parents briefly before working as a Locomotive Fireman at Mourilyan in Innisfail, QLD until the late 1960s. In 1972, Robert was in Brisbane living with his brother John and sister-in-law Beryl and working as a Storeman. Robert died in 1974
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