Leslie (Les) POYSER

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POYSER, Leslie

Service Number:	WX7320
Enlisted:	6 August 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Mansfield, England, United Kingdom, 28 June 1906
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Amoebic Dysentery and Avitaminosis (vitamin deficiency) whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 21 October 1943, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 10. Row E. Grave 14. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. LOVED AND REMEMBERED ALWAYS"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX7320
6 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX7320, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW numbers: - 4/6522 & 8831 Died from Amoebic Dysentery and Avitaminosis at Chungkai PoW Camp and initially interred in Grave No. 748, Chungkai.

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Harry Poyser and Sarah Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Poyser (nee Rurtland).

Leslie Poyser arrrived Fremantle on the 15th August 1927 aboard the ‘Berrima’ from London, at the age of 20 years. In 1931 Leslie married Dorothy ‘Rose’ Stemp in Fremantle, they had two children a son Leslie and daughter Jean. Rose Stemp’s family had also migrated from England. arriving 1913 from Liverpool, England aboard the ‘Zealandic’. After his death Dorothy never married and she died on the 8th September 1979 in Palmyra, Western Australia.

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