CLOVER, Leslie Vernon
| Service Number: | VX36472 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ouyen, Victoria, Australia, 12 June 1911 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 January 1961, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX36472 | |
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| 7 Oct 1940: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX36472 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Leslie Vernon Clover (Service No:VX36472) served in the Australian Army from 22 July 1940 to 7 October 1940 and was attached to 2/8 Field Company Engineers when he was Discharged (Medically Unfit).
Les was born in Ouyen, Victoria in 1911, youngest of seven children of William Clover (b1859 at Indented Head, Victoria) and Margaret Ann Ah King (b1876 in Landsborough, Victoria). William was a Farmer at Salbert in Swan Hill when he and Margaret married in 1894 in Birchip, where they lived until 1909 and William was a Farmer. William and Margaret settled in Ouyen where they raised their family and William was a Farmer. Margaret died in 1914, and by the mid 1920s William had retired to Melbourne.
Les worked as a Motor Mechanic in Melbourne where, in 1933, he married Muriel Loveland Hetherington (b1908 at Sea Lake, Victoria) - Muriel worked at Temora in the Riverina, NSW as a Nurse before returning to Wychepool, Victoria following her mother's death. Les and Muriel settled in Melbourne, where Les worked as a Motor Mechanic until his death in 1961. Muriel remarried in 1962, and died in 1977.