Biographical Notes |
Note: Gordon enlisted World War 1 No. 208, Third Light Horse, First A.I.F. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. Afterwards he farmed in N.S.W. and Victoria and then was under his cousin Harold Wilson at Werribee Agricultural College where Harold was Principal. Following retirement Gordon lived with his sister Linda Bond at Gosford. N.S.W., next with sister Birdie Mundon-Cresdee at Campbelltown, then with the unmarried sisters at the family home at Balham Ave, Kingswood. From there he entered the War Veterans' Home, Magill, then back at Kingswood, before his death at the Repatriation Hospital. During W.W.2 he served in the Garrison Force, Victoria. In his will he left his sisters Glen and Molly 12,000 shares in the metropolitan Milk Company and other assets. He was a difficult man and not co-operative with E.M.S. who applied to him for information of his wife's Bayne relatives in 1962. He even denied remembering the date of his marriage. He vaguely remembered his uncle C.P. Lakeman, but not his Aunt Marion Lakeman, so that what is recorded has been obtained from other sources.
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