Leonard Edgar (Len) SMITH

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SMITH, Leonard Edgar

Service Numbers:	T4940, TX10883
Enlisted:	22 September 1941
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	2nd/11th Field Regiment
Born:	Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia, 12 March 1920
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Apprentice Carpenter
Died:	St Helen's, Tasmania, Australia, 26 June 2019, aged 99 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombadier, T4940, 6 Field Regiment AMF
28 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, TX10883, 2nd/11th Field Regiment
19 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, TX10883, 2nd/11th Field Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Bombardier Leonard Edgar Smith (Service No:TX10883) initially enlisted in the ACMF (Service No:T4940) and was a Bombardier attached to 6 Australian Field Regiment when he Discharged on 27 August 1942 to enlist in the AIF. Bombardier Smith served with 61 Infantry Battalion and 2/11 Field Regiment in New Guinea (27 December 1944 - 9 May 1945) and Solomon Islands (15 July 1945 - 5 December 1945). He was attached to 2/11 Field Regiment when he was Discharged on 19 December 1945.

Born in 1920 at Scottsdale Tasmania, Len was the fifth of eight children of Edgar Allen Smith (b1888 at Lower Barrington, Tasmania) and Ethel Mary Willson (b1887 at Branxholm, Tasmania). Edgar (a Carpenter) and Ethel married in 1912 in Branxholm, Tasmania and lived in Launceston, Branxholm and Scottsdale where Edgar worked as a Carpenter.

Len was an Apprentice Carpenter when he enlisted in the ACMF in 1941 - and in December that year in Launceston he married Irene (Rene) May Jones (b1921 at Piper's River, Tasmania). Following his Discharge in December 1945, Len and Rene settled in Launceston where Len completed a Builder's Trade Course in 1950 and worked as a Carpenter and Foreman. Following Rene's death in 1976, Len remarried to Teresa Cheetham (nee Self; b1926 in Norfolk, England) - Teresa had immigrated with her first husband in 1952, arriving in Melbourne on board the New Australia. Teresa was working as a Saleswoman in Launceston when she and Len married. Teresa died in 2016 and Len in 2019.

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