DOHERTY, Leo Lancelot
| Service Number: | VX18536 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 May 1940, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment |
| Born: | Jericho, Victoria, Australia, 7 August 1899 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 13 April 1945, aged 45 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 1, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
World War 2 Service
| 29 May 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX18536, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 29 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX18536 | |
| 15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
| 13 Apr 1945: | Involvement Gunner, VX18536, 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment, Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Lorraine Hartree
"VX18536 Gunner Leo Lancelot Doherty, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Gunner Doherty, aged 44, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 April 1945. He was the son of Owen Summerfield and Katherine Doherty, and the husband of Cassie Priscilla Doherty, of Springvale, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 1..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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