STEPHENSON, Frank Leslie
| Service Numbers: | V285739, VX124736 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Training Battalion |
| Born: | Narre Warren, Victoria, Australia, 8 December 1923 |
| Home Town: | Narre Warren North, Casey, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 April 1986, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Narre Warren Honour Roll, Narre Warren North War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, V285739, 10th Training Battalion | |
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| 3 Mar 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, V285739, 10th Training Battalion | |
| 1 Apr 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX124736 | |
| 20 Jan 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX124736 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frank Leslie Stephenson (Service Nos:V285739/VX124736) initially served in the ACMF with 10th Training Battalion as a Signalman (16 March 1942) and enlisted in the AIF on 1 April 1943. Private Stephenson served with LHQ Signals - graded Clerk - and was attached to HQ AMF at Discharge on 20 January 1947.
Frank was born in Narre Warren, Victoria in 1923, only child of Francis (Frank Snr) Arthur Stephenson (b1896 in Staffordshire, England) and Jessie Brown (b1878 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Jessie was a Dressmaker in Melbourne. Frank Snr was a Farmer when he immigrated in 1913, arriving in Melbourne on board the Geelong. He worked briefly in NSW as a Farm Hand and was a Boundary Rider in Melbourne in 1914 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Dicharge, Frank Snr was a 'Retired Soldier' - in training as an Engine Driver - in 1921 when he applied for farm land at Stanhope under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act (Battle to Farm). In 1922 his grant was approved, and he and Jessie married in Melbourne that year before moving to Stanhope, and then to Narre Warren in the mid 1930s - Frank Snr was a Farmer.
Frank was working in Narre Warren as a Farm Hand in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, he was a Farm Manager at Wonga Park in Lilydale in 1947 when he married Doris Carns (b1924 in Denison, Tasmania). Frank and Doris settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Frank was a Farm Manager and, from the early 1950s, a Conductor. Doris died in 1973 and Frank in 1986.