Leslie Arthur (Les) CAREY

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CAREY, Leslie Arthur

Service Number:	TX8070
Enlisted:	25 August 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots
Born:	Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia, 11 May 1919
Home Town:	Smithton, Circular Head, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Smithton, Tasmania, Australia, 18 August 2004, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Smithton Cemetery (Tasmania)
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World War 2 Service

25 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX8070, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots
20 Dec 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX8070, Reception / Reinforcements / Personnel Depots

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Leslie Arthur Carey (Service No:TX8070) initially enlisted in the ACMF in January 1941 as a Private (Service No:T6535) attached to 12th Field Regiment (Part Time Duty), before enlisting in the AIF on 25 August 1941. Private Carey was hospitalised for treatment of a tumour on his cheek, and was attached to Reinforcements Reception Depot (RDD) at Discharge on 20 December 1941 - medially unfit.

Les was born in Sheffield, Tasmania in 1919, second of five children of William Arthur Carey (b1892 in Nook, Tasmania) and Ivy Regina Hall (b1898 in Deloraine, Tasmania). William (a Labourer) and Ivy married in 1916 in Sheffield Tasmania, where they settled and raised their family and William was a Labourer. They later lived in Staverton and Christmas Hills, where William was a Labourer.

Les was a Timber Worker and Labourer at Britton's Swamp via Smithton before enlisting in the Army. In 1943 at Wynyard, Les married Jean Shaw (b1921 at Christmas Hills, Tasmania) - Jean was a Nurse at Spencer Hospital in Table Cape. Les and Jean settled at Britton's Swamp via Smithton, where they raised their family and Les was a Labourer. Jean died in 1970 and Les in 2004.

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