Vivian Norman Lionel WALKER

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WALKER, Vivian Norman Lionel

Service Number:	QX6401
Enlisted:	19 August 1940
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 19 May 1901
Home Town:	Bundamba, Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mining Student
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 April 1956, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials:	Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall WW2

World War 2 Service

19 Aug 1940:	Involvement Captain, QX6401
19 Aug 1940:	Enlisted
19 Aug 1940:	Enlisted QX6401
27 Dec 1943:	Discharged
27 Dec 1943:	Discharged QX6401

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Captain Vivian Norman Lionel Walker (Service No:QX6401) enlisted in the Australian Army in August 1940 and was attached to 2/7 Field Coy Reinforcements when he was Discharged in December 1943.

Born in 1901 in Gympie QLD, Viv was the eldest of two children of Charles Walker (b1878 in Ipswich, QLD) and Marzellah Louisa Beavis Perrett (b1879 in Ipswich, QLD). Charles was eleven years of age when he started working at Guilland's Colliery in Ipswich and by the age of seventeen he was a Gold Miner in Gympie, QLD. Charles and Marzellah married in 1900 in Ipswich QLD and lived in Gympie before settling at Perrett's Hill in Bundamba, Ipswich QLD by 1905. By 1917 Charles was Mine Manager at Aberdare Colliery in Bundamba, Ipswich QLD.

Viv was a Mining Student in 1925 when he married Doris Estelle Beier (b1904 in Loganholme, QLD). The couple settled at Perrett's Hill in Bundamba and following his Discharge, Viv worked as a Mining Engineer until his death in 1954. Doris was a Company Director in Ipswich, QLD where she died in 1972.

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