LITTLE, Leslie Maxwell
| Service Numbers: | SX22798, S60927 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 October 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | BCOF Base Ordnance Depot |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, 3 March 1922 |
| Home Town: | Mil Lel, Grant, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Ground Accident, Japan, 31 October 1946, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Yokohama War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Gambier High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Oct 1941: | Involvement Private, SX22798 | |
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| 29 Oct 1941: | Involvement Private, S60927 | |
| 29 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Mount Gambier, SA | |
| 29 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX22798 | |
| 8 Aug 1945: | Involvement Private, SX22798, BCOF Base Ordnance Depot | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Private Leslie Maxwell Little SX22798 of the Australian Army Catering Corps (attached to the 1st Armoured Car Squadron B.C.O.F.) was killed in an armoured car accident at Kure, Japan, on 31 October, 1946. Also killed in this accident was Leading Aircraftman John Eric Edlund 132051 RAAF of 481 (Maintenance) Squadron based at Iwakuni in Japan
On the 31st of October 1946 two vehicles from a column of Staghound Armoured Cars of the 1st Armoured Car Squadron overturned, with Edlund & Little killed and seven other soldiers injured.
A military funeral was held for Private Little on 2 November, with his coffin being borne on the back of a Staghound Armoured Car
(http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Armoured%20Vehicles/austarmourinjapanph_1.htm)
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