PEEK, Leo Joseph
| Service Number: | NX170773 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, 25 September 1919 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 28 April 1973, aged 53 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX170773, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Dec 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX170773, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion, embarked Cairns for Aitape per Bontekoe | |
| 22 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX170773, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion, emplaned Nadzab for Brisbane | |
| 2 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX170773, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Leo Joseph Peek (Service No:NX170773) initially served with the ACMF (Private; Service No:N32602) with 54 Infantry Battalion from 27 September 1938 to 19 August 1942 and tranferred to the AIF on 20 August 1942. Private Peek embarked from Cairns for Aitape with 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion on 1 December 1944 on board the Bonteko, and emplaned from Nadzab for Brisbane on 22 March 1945. Private Peek was attached to 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 2 May 1946.
Born in 1919 in Wellington NSW, Leo was youngest of four children of William (Billy) Thomas Peek (b1886 in Ironbark, NSW) and his first wife Susan Elizabeth Wilson (nee Dora; b1877 at Gibsons Station, Macquarie River, NSW). Billy (a Fettler) and susan (a Widow) married abt 1913 in Narromine, NSW and lived in Wellington and Nyngan where they raised their family and Billy was a Fettler. Following Susan's death in 1923, Billy remarried and lived in Bathurst where he worked at the Locomotive Sheds until his death in 1934.
Leo worked as a Labourer and was a Carrier in Bathurst, NSW in 1938 when he enlisted in the Army. Leo was in Sydney NSW in 1946 when he married Faye Marion Shipley (b1925 in Concord, NSW) - Faye served in the RAAF (Service No:176765). Leo and Faye settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Leo was a Labourer and Machinist. Leo died in 1973 and Faye in 2018.
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