Lionel James GITTOES

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GITTOES, Lionel James

Service Number:	QX8785
Enlisted:	10 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	Australian Depot Battalion
Born:	Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, 17 August 1911
Home Town:	Murwillumbah, Tweed, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 16 October 1999, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Henry Kendall Rose Garden 3 0142
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World War 2 Service

10 Jun 1940:	Involvement QX8785
10 Jun 1940:	Enlisted
10 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX8785, Australian Depot Battalion
14 Nov 1940:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX8785, 2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE, embarked Sydney for Haifa
29 Apr 1941:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX8785, 2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE, Explosion (Chest Injury - Heamoptsis)
12 Sep 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX8785, 2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE, embarked Middle East for Fremantle on board New Zealand Hospital Ship en route for Melbourne
1 Jan 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX8785, Australian Depot Battalion
1 Jan 1942:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Sergeant Lionel James Gittoes (Service No:QX8785) enlisted in the AIF on 10 June 1940 as a Private - classified Engine Artificer. Corporal Gittoes was attached to 2/7 Field Coy on 14 November 1940 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Haifa, and was promoted to Lance Sergeant on 3 February 1941. WiA (explosion which caused a chest injury - heamoptsis) on 29 April 1941, Lance Sergeant Gittoes embarked from the Middle East for Fremantle en route for Melbourne on 12 September 1941 on board New Zealand Hospital Ship. Lance Sergeant Gittoes was attached to Australian Depot Battalion at Discharge (Medically Unfit) on 1 January 1942. He then served in the Civil Construction Corps (No:CQ7257) from 10 September 1942 to 21 September 1944.

Lionel was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales in 1911, second of three children of Lionel William Gittoes (b1885 in Gundagai, New South Wales) and Ethel (May) Mary Brown (b1888 in Bulli, New South Wales). Lionel Snr and May married in 1908 in Nangus via Gundagai - Lionel Snr was a Farmer/Labourer. In 1910 he and May moved to Murwillumbah (Byangum) where Lionel Snr was a Labourer, before settling at Palmvale where they raised their family and Lionel Snr was a Banana Farmer.

In the early 1930s Lionel was a Farmer at Coorabel via Byron Bay, and by the mid 1930s he was working as a Truck Driver in Brisbane and Murwillumbah. In 1940 in Murwillumbah, Lionel married May Susannah Hais (b1913 in Brisbane, QLD. Following his Discharge from the Army, Lionel and May settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Lionel worked as a Mechanic until retirement. May died in 1992 and Lionel in 1999.

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