PAYNTER, Ida
| Service Number: | VF516400 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 September 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, 7 September 1917 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tailoress |
| Died: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 26 January 1993, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Kangaroo Flat Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Sep 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VF516400 | |
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| 25 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VF516400 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ida was the youngest of five children of Thomas Henry Faulkner Paynter (b1862 in Avoca, Victoria) and Emma McCredden (b1873 in Acklan, Victoria). Thomas - a Farmer - and Emma married in 1891 in Avoca, Victoria. They raised their family in Ararat, Victoria and moved to Jil Jil at Birchip in 1912. Thomas died in 1919 and Emma remarried.
Ida was a Tailoress in Geelong when she enlisted in the ACMF in September 1944. She was a Private (Service No:VF516400) with the Australian Army Women's Service when she was Discharged in 1946.
In 1951 Ida was a Tailoress in Geelong when she married Thomas William Hokin (b1916 in Castlemaine, Victoria). Thomas was a Farm Hand - he served with the ACMF in WWII as a Private (Service No:V65210) attached to 38 Battalion.
Ida and Thomas settled at Ravenswood near Bendigo where Thomas was a Farm Hand. In the mid 1960s Ida and Thomas moved into Bendigo, where Thomas worked as a Labourer on the Railways. Ida died in January 1993 and Thomas in August that year.