Wilfred Lindsay Stewart MEEK

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MEEK, Wilfred Lindsay Stewart

Service Number:	N169939
Enlisted:	29 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	29th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, 9 May 1901
Home Town:	Mungindi, Balonne Shire, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Manager
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 June 1985, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
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World War 2 Service

29 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N169939, 29th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
29 Mar 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N169939, 29th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces
30 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N169939, 29th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Wilfred was the second son of Albert Stewart Meek (born 1871 in London) and first wife Emilie Louise Eichorn (born 1875 in Singapore). Albert - a Naturalist who collected butterflies, bugs, birds and small deer - arrived in Cooktown QLD in 1889 seeking work in a museum. He married Emilie in 1893 in Cooktown and worked as a Naturalist, making frequent expeditions to New Guinea (A Naturalist in Cannibal Land, edited by Frank Fox).

Wilfred worked as a Clerk in Brisbane QLD befroe moving to Sydney, NSW (where his father was then living). He was a Clerk in Sydney in 1936 when he married Gladys May Butler (born 1906 in Gympie, QLD) - Gladys was a Nurse.

In 1942 Wilfred and Gladys were living in Woolongong, NSW when he enlisted in the ACMF. Wilfred served as a Private (Service No:N169939) and was attached to 29 Battalion VDC when he was Discharged in September 1945.

Wilfred and Gladys moved to Gayndah, QLD where he was a Bank Manager, then moving to Rosewood on the Darling Downs and Tarragindi where he died in 1985. Gladys died in 1987.

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