Leslie James PIGDON

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PIGDON, Leslie James

Service Numbers:	V50524, VX86722
Enlisted:	19 January 1939, 6th Heavy Brigade RAA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, 27 November 1917
Home Town:	Queenscliff, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fisherman
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 30 August 1994, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Queenscliff Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

19 Jan 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V50524, 6th Heavy Brigade RAA
14 Sep 1939:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V50524, 6th Heavy Brigade RAA
7 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX86722
20 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX86722

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Leslie James Pigdon (Service No:VX86722) first served in the Militia Forces (Private; Service No:V50524) with 6th Heavy Brigade RAA before enlisting in the AIF on 7 August 1942. Private Pigdon was attached to Darwin Coast Artillery when he was Discharged on 20 November 1945.

Born in 1917 in Queenscliff victoria, Leslie was the third of five children of Arthur Ernest Pigdon (b1887 in Queenscliff, Victoria) and Elsie Rose Ruddick (b1889 at St Arnaud, Victoria). Arthur (a Labourer) and Elsie married in 1914 in Queenscliff, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Arthur was a Fisherman.

Leslie worked as a Fisherman in Queenscliff before enlisting in the Army. In 1941 he married Kathleen Ellen Fawcett (b1920 in Port Melbourne, Victoria). Following his Discharge, Leslie and Kathleen lived in Queenscliff where Leslie worked as a Fisherman, then in Geelong where Leslie was a Carpenter, and in the late 1950s in Warragul where Leslie was a Sub Foreman. By the mid 1960s the family was living in Melbourne and Leslie was a Railways Employee and Foreman. By 1980 Leslie and Kathleen had separated and Leslie had returned to Queenscliff. Leslie died in 1994.

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