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ALDRIDGE, Leslie Mervyn
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX23476 |
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Enlisted: | 17 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Taroom, Queensland, Australia, 15 August 1914 |
Home Town: | Theodore, Banana, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Station Hand |
Died: | Natural Causes, Tasmania, Australia, 25 February 2004, aged 89 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Tasmania (Hobart) Garden of Remembrance |
Service History
World War 2 Service
17 Sep 1941: | Involvement QX23476 | |
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17 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion | |
17 Sep 1941: | Enlisted | |
16 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion, From Townsville to New Guinea; disembarked on 19 March 1943. | |
27 Sep 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion, From Port Moresby to Cairns; disembarked 30 September 1943. | |
1 Dec 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion, From Cairns to Aitape, New Guinea; disembarked on 7 December 1944. | |
26 Oct 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 67 Australian Infantry Battalion, From Wewak to Morotai, New Guinea; disembarked on 29 October 1945. | |
28 Dec 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion, From Morotai to Brisbane; disembarked on 4 January 1946. | |
23 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX23476, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion | |
23 Jan 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of William George ALDRIDGE, Theodore, Qld.