WALK, Leslie
| Service Number: | Q135628 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 49 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 7 March 1917 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Papua, 7 December 1942, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, Q135628 | |
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| 23 Dec 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 23 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q135628, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 17 Aug 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q135628, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby | |
| 7 Dec 1942: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eldest of the three brothers who served in WWII, Private Leslie Walk (Service No:Q135628) enlisted in the ACMF on 23 December 1941, and was attached to 11 and 30 Training Battalions. On 17 August 1942, Private Walk was attached to 49 Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Townsville for Port Moresby. Private Walk was KiA in Papua on 7 December 1942.
Leslie was born in Bundaberg, QLD in 1917, second of four children (sons) of August Charles Walk (b1891 in Bundaberg, QLD) and Fanny Agnes Garland (b1880 in London, England) - Fanny, a Teacher (French and the Piano) and a Dressmaker in London, immigrated in 1912, arriving in Townsville on board the Roscommon. August (a Labourer) and Fanny (a Domestic Servant) were living in Cloncurry when they married in 1914. The couple settled in Bundaberg, where they raised their family and August was a Dairy Farmer and Milk Vendor (Bell's Farm, Branyan via Bundaberg and Gooburrum). During WWII, August was in Brisbane, where he was a Carpenter at Hut 1 C Housing Area on Gregory Terrace. In the 1950s August worked as a Watchman in Brisbane.
Leslie was a Farm Labourer at Gooburrum in Musgrave via Bundaberg, and in 1941 married Vera Jessie Habermann (b1917 in Ingham, QLD) - Vera was a Nurse at the Lady Chelmsford Hospital in Bundaberg. Following Leslie's death in 1942, Vera moved to Brisbane, where she worked as a Shop Assistant and Milliner. Jessie died in 2009.