O'HALLORAN, Leo
| Service Number: | WX18044 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | West Perth, Western Australia, 2 July 1913 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 16 March 2000, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-452842-Q1Y3M0 KC00142212 Ashes dispersed at Karrakatta Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX18044 | |
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| 19 May 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX18044 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Leo Vincent O'Halloran (Service No:WX18044) enlisted in the Australian Army on 15 December 1941 with Western Command General Details Camp Claremont. Private O'Halloran was attached to 1 Spec Battalion when he was Discharged (Medically Unfit) on 15 May 1942.
Born in 1913 in West Perth WA, Leo was the second of seven children of Martin William O'Halloran (b1876 at Sandhurst, Victoria) and Alice Isabelle Smith (b1887 at Petersburgh, South Australia). Martin (a Labourer) and Alice married in 1910 in Perth WA where they raised their family and Martin worked as a Labourer and Engine Driver.
Leo worked as a Labourer in Perth prior to his enlistment in the Army. He next appears in the Electoral Rolls in 1972 living in Perth with his sister Mary and working as a Plasterer. Leo died in Perth in 2000.
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