Leslie Jack (Jack) WILKINSON

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WILKINSON, Leslie Jack

Service Numbers:	VX46079, VX46079
Enlisted:	17 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Battery
Born:	Korumburra, Victoria, Australia, 4 July 1918
Home Town:	Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 May 1991, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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World War 2 Service

17 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46079
3 Sep 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46079, 2nd/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Battery, embarked Sydney for Middle East
16 Apr 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46079 , 2nd/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Battery, embarked Middle East for Melbourne
5 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46079

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Leslie Jack Wilkinson (Service No:VX46079) served in the AIF with 109 and 2nd/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiments RAA from 17 July 1940 to 5 December 1945. Private Wilkison served in the Middle East from 3 September 1941 to 16 April 1942 and was attached to 2nd/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment RAA at Discharge on 5 December 1945.

Jack (Leslie John) was born in Korumburra, Victoria in 1917, fourth of nine children of Henry (Jim) James Wilkinson (b1886 in Mirboo, Victoria) and Elsie Mary Anne Mitchell (b1890 in Marcorna, Victoria). Jim (a Labourer) and Elsie married in 1906 in Korumburra where they settled and raised their family and Jim was a Labourer. In the 1930s the family moved to Warragul, where Jim was a Farmer and Labourer.

Jack was working as a Farmer in Warragul in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. He was a Labourer at Lake Tyers in Gippsland in the 1970s/1980s, and died in Melbourne in 1991.

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