Henry Josiah LEECH

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Service Number:	TX2692
Enlisted:	24 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Berri, South Australia, Australia, 22 October 1918
Home Town:	Cygnet, Huon Valley, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer (Orchard)
Died:	Illness, Timor, 9 July 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 15. Row A. Grave 7. Inscription: "HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED ... SADLY MISSED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Launceston 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion Honour Roll

24 Jun 1940:	Involvement Private, TX2692
24 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Hobart, TAS
24 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX2692
22 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died of illness.
9 Jul 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Member of Sparrow Force died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as cerebral malaria.

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