WILKINSON, Leslie
| Service Number: | V365047 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Kardella, Victoria, Australia, 16 April 1906 |
| Home Town: | Orbost, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boot Repairer |
| Died: | Orbost, Victoria, Australia, 12 June 1955, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 25 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V365047 | |
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| 4 Sep 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V365047 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, V365047 |
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Private Leslie Wilkinson (Service No:V365047) served in the ACMF with 13th Battalion (Vic) VDC from 25 March 1942 to 4 September 1944. Siblings Stan (Service No:464) and Roy (Service No:3954; KiA France) served in WWI.
Les (Leslie Raymond) was born in Kardella via Korumburra, Victoria in 1906, youngest of eight children of Henry James Wilkinson (b1852 in Korumburra) and Emma Roughead (b1864 in Chiltern, Victoria). According to his Obituary (Trove: 1941), Henry started work at twelve years of age as a Road Hauler/Boy Driver, carting sleepers for the main Gippsland railway between Melbourne and Mt Pleasant. Henry and Emma married in Melbourne in 1883, and lived in Yarragon, Mirboo, Boolarra and Melbourne before settling at Kardella via Korumburra, where they raised their family and Henry was a Labourer.
Les worked as a Boot Repairer in Orbost, Maffra where, in 1929, he married Jessie Margeurite Harris (b1900 in Orbost, Victoria) - Jessie was working at Glen Maggie Weir, Maffra as a Dressmaker. Les and Jessie lived in Melbourne before settling in Orbost in the mid 1930s, where they raised their family and Les worked as a Labourer and Boot Repairer. Les died in 1955 and Jessie in 1991.