Harold James MCLEARY

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MCLEARY, Harold James

Service Number:	QX14555
Enlisted:	12 July 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 25 March 1903
Home Town:	Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Burma, 27 July 1943, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A10 D 7
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall WW2

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, QX14555
12 Jul 1940:	Enlisted
12 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX14555, 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company, Kelvin Grove, Qld.
27 Jul 1943:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William James McLeary and Margaret Ann McLeary nee Cain, of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia; husband of Ivy Myrtle McLeary nee Springall, of North Ipswich, Queensland.

SADLY MISSED BY HIS LOVING WIFE IVY AND FAMILY ALAN, KEVIN & SYLVIA

Survived by his wife Ivy, children Alan, Kevin and Sylvia. Also by his father, sisters Mrs Mary Wilson, Mrs Sarah Cutler, Mrs Margaret Fields, Mrs Esther McKenzie, Mrs Isabella Clement and brothers David and Thomas.

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