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PEARCE, Leslie Allen
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX20482 |
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Enlisted: | 3 July 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Toowoomba, Qld. Australia, 2 April 1917 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Papua, 27 December 1942, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kingaroy Stone of Remembrance, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX20482 | |
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3 Jul 1941: | Enlisted | |
3 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX20482, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion | |
27 Dec 1942: | Discharged |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Barbara Krnos
Parents were George Alfred and Annie (Dickson) Pearce. Leslie was one of nine children. He never married and enlisted when he was 24 years of age. Killed in action but with no known grave he is commemorated at the Port Moreseby Memorial.