CHERRY, Leslie Harold
| Service Numbers: | Q302301, QX39340 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 27 March 1904 |
| Home Town: | Darra, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Truck Driver |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 May 1975, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Jun 1940: | Involvement Corporal, Q302301, also QX39340 | |
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| 18 Jun 1940: | Involvement Corporal, QX39340, also Q302301 | |
| 18 Jun 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 18 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX39340 | |
| 15 May 1944: | Discharged | |
| 15 May 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX39340 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Leslie Harold Cherry (Service Nos:Q302301/QX39340) initially enlisted in the ACMF in Caloundra on 18 June 1940 - appointed MT Driver, serving with 1 MAC and 7 Field Ambulance before transferring to the AIF on 18 August 1942. Corporal Cherry was attached to 8 MAC AIF at Discharge on 15 May 1944. Younger brother Eric served in WWII, and older brothers (Sid and Percy) served in WWI.
Born in Warwick, QLD in 1904, Les was tenth of fourteen children of William Henry Cherry (b1864 in Windsor, Hawkesbury City, New South Wales) and Mary Ann Eldridge (b1870 in London, England) - Mary immigrated in 1874, arriving in Moreton Bay with her parents and siblings on board the Great Britain. William (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1886 in Warwick, QLD and lived in Killarney, at Thanes Creek and Rosenthral, and in Warwick - William was a Labourer, a Drover through southern QLD/northern NSW, and a Farmer.
Les worked as a Labourer in Warwick, Toowoomba and Chinchilla and was a Truck Driver in Darra, Brisbane in 1935 when he married his first wife Nina Ethel Preston (b1904 in Ulmurra, New South Wales). Les and Nina divorced in Cairns in 1944, and Les was in Brisbane in 1945 when he remarried to Lillian Eva Francis Cochrane (b1924 in Cunnamulla, QLD). Les and Lillian settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Les worked as a Canister Maker. Les died in 1975 and Lillian in 1979.
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