GARDINER, Walter Mervyn
| Service Number: | F3592 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Seaman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 31 December 1920 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Civil Servant (Clerk) |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 16 November 1962, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 May 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, F3592 | |
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| 23 Apr 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, F3592 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Seaman Walter Mervyn Gardiner (Service No:F3592) enlisted in the RAN on 26 May 1941 - mustered as a Supply Assistant. He was attached to HMAS Leeuwin at Discharge on 23 April 1946. Leading Seaman Gardiner's three siblings also served in WWII.
Born in 1920 in Melbourne Victoria, Walter was the youngest of four children of Wilfred (Will) Hardy Gardiner (b1885 in Drouin, Gippsland, Victoria) and Ethel Hannah May Davies (b1886 in Portland, Victoria). Will (a Sleeper Hewer) and Ethel married in Perth in 1906 and lived at Nine Mile Camp Swan, Kalgoorlie and Waroona where Will was a Sleeper Hewer before enlisting in the AIF in WWI. Discharged in Melbourne in 1919, Will worked as a Postal Employee and Tram Driver before he and Ethel returned to Perth in the mid 1920s. Will worked in Perth as a Labourer before returning to Victoria in the mid 1930s - he settled at Lakes entrance where he was a farmer and Ethel remained in Perth with the children.
Walter started work in 1936 in Perth as a Telegraph Messenger with the Post Master General's Department and in 1941 he married Amy Jocelyn Blight (b1923 in Perth, WA). Walter and Amy settled at Roleystone and Walter was a Civil Servant. Following Amy's death in 1952, Walter remarried in 1954 to Muriel Verona Wallace (b1914 in Kalgoorlie WA). Walter and Muriel lived in Perth where Walter was a Taxi Proprietor until his death in 1962. Muriel died in 2002.