Harold Robert Colquhoun and George Foulds Gilmore collection

George Gilmore (1897-1970) was born in Toowong, Brisbane, in 1897. At the time of his enlistment on 19 June 1917 he was working as a fitter and living at Wolfram Camp, near Cairns. He was assigned as a sapper to the 6th Field Company Engineers, January to October, 1917, Reinforcements. He embarked from Sydney on S.S. 'Canberra' on 16 November 1917, and after training at Parkhouse Camp in Wiltshire, England, served in France. In February 1919 he was transferred to the 23rd Infantry Battalion and promoted to sergeant. At the end of the war he was an instructor of motor mechanics, training Australian troops at the Universitie-du-Trevail in Charleroi, Belgium, before returning to Australia in December 1919. After the war he returned to Cairns and was employed as a fitter. In 1922 he married Muriel Colquhoun (known a Minna) who was a sister of Harold Robert Colquhoun. The couple had two children, Dorothy and Ian. Muriel died in 1940. George Gilmore married Lydia Grace McPherson in 1944. In 1930 he established his own engineering firm, Gilmore & Cadlolo, in Cairns. During the Second World War he served as a warrant officer with the Citizen Military Forces, and in 1950 was elected president of the Far Northern District Returned Sailor's Soldier's Airmen's Imperial League. He died on the 25 July 1970 in Cairns.