Leslie Alan KENNEDY

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Service Number:	VX5707
Enlisted:	4 November 1939
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mitiamo, Victoria, Australia, 28 November 1905
Home Town:	Elsternwick, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Greaser, Boiler Attendant, Power House, Yallourn, Victoria
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 6 February 1943, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot H. Row D. Grave 2. Personal Inscription ~ "SI PROCUL HINC QUI ANTE DIEM PERIIT SED MILES SED PRO PATRIA" (who died in a far off land before his time but as a soldier and for his country.)
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, VX5707
4 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX5707, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion

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