HEAZLEWOOD, Leslie James
| Service Number: | TX15691 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 20 March 1924 |
| Home Town: | Scottsdale, Dorset, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 17 August 2011, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 31 Aug 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX15691 | |
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| 11 Jan 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX15691 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Leslie James Heazlewood (Service Nos:TX15691/T34866) enlisted in the Army on 31 August 1943 and was attached to 75 Bulk Issue and Oil Depot (BIPOD) Platoon when he was Discharged on 11 January 1945.
Leslie was born in 1924 in Ulverstone Tasmania, the third of five children of Edwin Arthur Heazlewood (b1895 in Ulverstone, Tasmania) and Alice Pearl Pearce (b1897 in Ulverstone, Tasmania). A Farm Labourer in Upper Castra, Edwin enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:T4268) in 1916 but was Discharged as Medically Unfit. He and Alice married at Ulverstone in 1918 and lived in Upper Castra where Edwin was a Farm Labourer until the early 1920s. The family then moved to Table Cape where Edwin was a Lorry Driver and in the 1930s the family was living in Kentish where Edwin was a Motor Driver. By the 1940's they had settled at Scottsdale where Edwin worked as a Linesman.
By 1949 Leslie had married Rhoda Dorothy Willis (b1924 in Scottsdale, Tasmania) and the couple was living in Branxholm where Leslie was a Storekeeper. They moved to Scottsdale in the mid 1950s and Leslie worked as a Clerk before moving to George Town in the early 1960s where Leslie was a Manager. Leslie and Rhoda settled in George Town into the 1970s - Leslie died in Launceston in 2011 and Rhoda died in Byron Bay NSW in 2021.
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