Lloyd Leonard LOTT

LOTT, Lloyd Leonard

Service Numbers: V30040, VX117694
Enlisted: 27 June 1940
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 39 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 July 1914
Home Town: Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer/Contractor
Died: Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 23 May 1975, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

27 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V30040, 14th Australian Infantry Training Battalion
27 Dec 1941: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V30040, 39th Infantry Battalion, embarked Port Adelaide for Port Moresby
26 Jun 1942: Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, 39th Infantry Battalion
22 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX117694, 39 Infantry Battalion AMF
14 Mar 1943: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX117694, 39th Infantry Battalion, embarked Port Moresby for Cairns on board HT Duntroon
22 Feb 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX117694, 39 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Lloyd Leonard Lott (Service Nos:V30040/VX117694) initially served in the Militia (Corporal; Service No:333243) with 52nd Battalion from 7 February 1939 to 4 March 1940. Corporal Lott then enlisted in the ACMF on 27 June 1940 and served in New Guinea (27 December 1941 - 14 March 1943) with 39th Infantry Battalion. Promoted to Sergeant, he was 'in the field' at Port Moresby in New Guinea when he enlisted in the AIF on 22 July 1942, and was attached to 39th Infantry Battalion at Discharge (Medically Unfit) on 22 February 1944.

Lloyd was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1914, only child of Lawrence Leonard Lott (b1886 in Branxholme, Victoria) and Edith de Montford Townsing (b1891 in Ampitheatre, Victoria). Lawrence (a Farrier) and Edith (a Domestic Servant) married in Melbourne in 1914. Lawrence served in WWI (Driver; Service No:2498) and following his Discharge, divorced Edith in Melbourne in 1919. Lawrence settled in Melbourne, where he worked as a Farrier/Blacksmith until his death in 1926. Edith remarried and settled in Warragul, where she died in 1967.

Lloyd worked as a Labourer and Contractor in Warragul, where in 1940 he married Linda Mavis Wilkinson (b1919 in Korumburra, Victoria). Lloyd and Linda settled in Warragul, where they raised their family and Lloyd was a Concretor (in partnership with Horace Hampshire - Hampshire & Lott) until 1951. Following dissolution of the partnership, Lloyd worked as a Labourer in Warragul until his death in 1975. Linda died in 2003.

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