Sydney Gordon GARDNER

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GARDNER, Sydney Gordon

Service Numbers:	Q3773, Q152253, QX39195
Enlisted:	28 April 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4 August 1917
Home Town:	Yarraman, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 16 October 1996, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Nanango Cemetery, South Burnett - Queensland
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

28 Apr 1941:	Involvement Corporal, Q3773, FTD 5/1/1942? - later Q152253 & QX39195
28 Apr 1941:	Enlisted
5 Jan 1942:	Involvement Corporal, Q152253, prev Q3773 also QX39195
5 Jan 1942:	Involvement Corporal, QX39195, also Q3773 & Q152253
5 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX39195
5 Jan 1942:	Enlisted
26 Nov 1945:	Discharged
26 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX39195

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sydney was the second of four children of Henry (Harry) William Gardner (b1885 in Ipswich, QLD) and Violet Anne Heale (b1891 at Yarraman Creek, Darling Downs, QLD). Harry (a Labourer) and Violet married in 1913 at Yarraman and settled in Nanango before Harry enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:18908) in 1916. Brother Joseph (Private; Service No:50) had served in the Boer War. Harry and Violet settled in Yarraman where they raised their family and Harry worked as a Labourer.

Sydney was a Labourer at Yarraman, QLD when he enlisted in the Militia on 23 July 1940 (Private; Service No:Q3773) - he served with 2/14 Light Horse Regiment before enlisting in the Australian Army in April 1941. He was a Corporal (Service Nos:QX39195/Q152253) attached to 7 Line of Command Provost Coy when he was Discharged in November 1945. Brother Henry William (Service No:Q3772) and sister Dulcie Rose (Service No:QF:143286) as well as several cousins also served in WWII.

In 1944 Sydney married Emma Ferguson (b1921 in Beenliegh, QLD) - Emma was living with her parents at Cedar Creek via Beenleigh). Sydney and Emma lived in Yarraman where Sydney was a Labourer, before moving to Nanango in 1953. Sydney worked as a Cream Carrier in Nanango until the late 1960s when he moved his family to Gympie, QLD and worked as a Truck Driver.

By the early 1970s Sydney and Emma had moved to Brisbane, where Sydney worked as a Truck Driver. Emma died in 1975 and Sydney in 1996.

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