HATELEY, Leonard Birdwood
Service Numbers: | V64375, VX134973 |
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Enlisted: | 18 March 1941, Nhill, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Nhill, Victoria, Australia, 3 April 1917 |
Home Town: | Nhill, Hindmarsh, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farm hand |
Died: | Killed in Action, Berrys Hill ,Bougainville, 9 July 1945, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Originally buried in grave 11 at Berrys Hill on the Numa Numa Trail in a battle grave - later removed to the Bomana War Cemetery Port Moresby -plot B4, Row B, Grave 10 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dimboola Memorial Secondary College Roll of Honor WW2 |
World War 2 Service
18 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Private, V64375, 7th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Nhill, Victoria | |
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16 Feb 1943: | Transferred Private, 7th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Leonard transferred out of the Militia into the regular Army | |
17 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Private, VX134973, Northern Territory | |
17 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX134973, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
18 Feb 1943: | Involvement Private, VX134973 | |
9 Jul 1945: | Involvement Private, VX134973, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, Bougainville |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Leonard Birdwood HATELEY was born at Nhill, Victoria on 3rd April, 1917 - his birth was registered as Lenard Bainwood Hateley
His parents were William Ernest HATELEY and Hilda May JAMES
Leonard was Killed in Action on 9th July, 1945 and is buried in Bomana War Cemetery, Plot B4, Row B, Grave 10
His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Roll of Honour in Dimboola.