Leonard Samuel CANNEY

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CANNEY, Leonard Samuel

Service Numbers:	S48795, SX22110
Enlisted:	20 March 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Australian Army Canteen Service
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 6 September 1914
Home Town:	Blair Athol, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Commercial Traveller
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 8 March 1979, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	North Brighton Cemetery, S.A.
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World War 2 Service

20 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S48795, Australian Army Canteen Service
18 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, S48795, Australian Army Canteen Service
19 Aug 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, S48795
19 Aug 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, SX22110
19 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
19 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX22110
15 Jan 1943:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Australian Army Canteen Service
30 Oct 1944:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, Australian Army Canteen Service
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX22110
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Leonard Samuel Canney (Service No:SX22110) initially served with the ACMF (Private; Service No:S48795) with Australian Defence Canteen Service (20 March 1942 - 18 August 1942). On 19 August 1942, Lance Sergeant Canney enlisted in the AIF, serving with Australian Army Canteen Service (AASC) and was promoted to Corporal then Sergeant. Sergeant Canney was attached to 30 Australian Army Canteen Service at Discharge on 3 December 1945.

The eldest of two children, Leonard was born in 1914 to Samuel Mackie Canney (b1893 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Elsie May Stevenson (b1894 in Sydney, NSW). Samuel and Elsie married in 1912 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Leonard worked as a Commercial Traveller in Adelaide, where in 1936 he married first wife Margaret Marion McBurney(b1920 in Adelaide, South Australia). Following Margaret's death in 1954, Leonard remarried in 1956 to Jean Mary Kernick (b1920 in Adelaide, South Australia). Leonard died in 1979 and Jean in 2002.

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