VORBACH, Leslie Phillip
| Service Number: | NX55101 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand, 28 May 1918 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Window Cleaner |
| Died: | Ettalong, NSW, 13 February 2000, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX55101 | |
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| 24 Jan 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX55101 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Leslie Phillip Vorbach (Service No:NX55101) initially served in the Militia in Melbourne (Private; Service No:324198) with 32nd Battalion from June to December 1938. Private Vorbach enlisted in Sydney, NSW in the AIF on 14 June 1940 and was attached to 6th Infantry Battalion at Discharge (Medically Boarded) on 24 January 1941.
Born in Marlborough, New Zealand in 1918, Les was youngest of four children of William Allan Vorbach (b1878 in Renwick, New Zealand) and first wife Mabel Druscilla Collins (b1878 in Bendigo, Victoria). William was a Wheelwright in 1900 when he and Mabel married in Bendigo, Victoria. By 1903 they had settled in Marlborough, New Zealand where they raised their family and William worked as a Wheelwright. Following Mabel's death in 1925, William remarried.
Lew was working in Melbourne, Victoria as a Labourer in 1938 when he enlisted in the Militia. In 1940 Les was a Labourer in Sydney, NSW when he married Joyce Dulcie Hallett (b1924 in Dorset, England) - Dulcie was a Leather Glove Worker in Dorset. Following his Discharge, Les and Joyce settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Les worked as a Labourer and Window Cleaner in the 1940s. In the early 1950s, Les joined the Public Service, initially as a Postal Worker and in the late 1950s as a Hospital (Nursing) Attendant with the Department of Public Health. Joyce died in 1978 and Les in 2000.
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