LE SERVE, Frank Hunter
| Service Numbers: | V38855, V38855 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 December 1938 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia, 28 December 1908 |
| Home Town: | Poowong, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fruiterer |
| Died: | Poowong, Victoria, Australia, 1 August 1989, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Poowong Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Shire of Korumburra Poowong Riding WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 21 Dec 1938: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V38855 | |
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| 23 Dec 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V38855 | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V38855 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frank Hunter Le Serv (Service No:V38855) initially served in the Militia as a Private (Service No:329317) with 14th and 29th Battalions (24 December 1928 - 28 February 1940). Serving with the ACMF, Private Le Serv was attached to 29 Battalion at Discharge on 22 December 1941 - Medically Unfit.
Born in Lang Lang in Southern Gippsland, Victoria in 1908, Mac was third of five children of Albert Charles Le Serv (b1879 in London, England) and Lily Hannah Hunter (b1879 at Pleasant Creek in Victoria). Albert immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1884, arriving in Sydney, NSW on board the Warwick. By 1903 Albert was working at Lang Lang as a Harness Maker, and he and Lily married in 1905 in Lang Lang, Victoria. By 1914 they had moved to Poowong, where they raised their family and Albert worked as a Labourer and Harness Maker - he served in the AIF in WWI. In the 1930s Albert (a Harness Maker) moved to Melbourne, and later to Sydney, where he died in 1946. Lily remained in Poowong.
Mac lived with his mother in Poowong, where he worked as a Labourer and Fruiterer before enlisting in the Army. Following his Medical Discharge, Mac lived in Poowong with his mother - working as a Labourer - until her death in 1955. In 1962, Mac was an Assistant Butcher when he married Norma Gwendoline Collins (b1928 at Mountain View via Poowong, Victoria). Mac and Norma settled in Poowong, where they raised their family and Mac worked as a Butcher. Mac died in 1989 and Norma in 2016.
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