BAYNES, Vernon Roger
| Service Number: | N272934 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Bombardier |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Field Battery |
| Born: | Maroubra, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1922 |
| Home Town: | Maroubra, Randwick, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stock Clerk |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 29 April 1983, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Bombardier, N272934, 53rd Field Battery | |
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| 1 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombardier, N272934 | |
| 22 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombadier, N272934, ex Townsville to Lae per Gorgon 1 Field Censorship Coy | |
| 22 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombadier, N272934, 1A Field Censorship Coy, emplaned Nadzab to Townsville | |
| 12 Feb 1945: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombadier, 53rd Field Battery | |
| 14 Jun 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombardier, N272934 | |
| 14 Jun 1945: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Bombardier, N272934, 53rd Field Battery | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Bombardier, N272934, 53rd Field Battery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Vernon (Roge) was the eldest of four children of Vernon Baynes (born 1885 in Essex in England) and Isabelle (Belle) emily Margeurite Schmidt (born 1893 in Noumea, New Caledonia). Vernon had arrived in Australia in 1910 and was working at Palan Creek in Beaudesert, QLD in the timber mill. He returned to England and served with the British Army in WWI as a Lieutenant with the London Regiment. Vernon and Bella married in Noumea in 1922 and settled in Maroubra NSW where Roge was born in 1923.
Roge's younger brother Robert William served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1941 to 1947 as an Able Seaman (Service No: 24974).
Roge enlisted in the AIF in July 1941 and served with 53 Field Battery AIF as a Bombardier (Service No: N272934). Following his Discharge in June 1945 Roge settled in Lane Cove in Sydney, NSW where he worked as a Salesman.
Roge married Gwen Olive McKinnon in Adelaide, South Australia in 1952. Roge was a Company Director in Pymble, NSW where he lived with his second wife, Brenda Elizabeth. Roge died in Adelaide South Australia in 1983.