GRAY, Leslie
| Service Numbers: | QX47887, Q107504 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Depot Units of Supply |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 July 1919 |
| Home Town: | Esk, Somerset, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Petrie Terrace State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Saw Mill Clerk |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 February 2004, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Mar 1941: | Involvement Corporal, Q107504, also QX47887 | |
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| 29 Mar 1941: | Involvement Corporal, QX47887, also Q107504 | |
| 29 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887 | |
| 29 Mar 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 28 Jan 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q107504, 8 Supply Personnel Section AASC | |
| 23 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887, Depot Units of Supply, embarked Brisbane for Bougainville on board Cape Victory | |
| 11 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887, Depot Units of Supply, embarked Torokina for Townsville on board Ormiston | |
| 30 May 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887, Depot Units of Supply, embarked Brisbane for Torokina on board Katoomba | |
| 26 Dec 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887, Depot Units of Supply, embarked Torokina for Sydney on board Katoomba | |
| 16 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX47887 | |
| 16 Jan 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Leslie Gray (Service Nos:Q107505/QX47887) initially served in the ACMF as a Private (Trade Group Clerk) from 29 March 1941 to 28 January 1943 before enlisting in the AIF on 29 January 1943. Corporal Gray was attached to Supply Personnel Coys, and served in the Solomon Islands (Bougainville and Torokina) from November 1944 to December 1946. Corporal Gray was attached to 58 Field Park Coy at Discharge on 16 January 1946.
Leslie was born in Brisbane, QLD in 1919, third of four children of James Gray (b1888 in Brisbane, QLD) and Alice Pretsel (b1887 in Brisbane, QLD). James (a Carpenter) and Alice married in 1912 in Brisbane, where they settled and raised their family and James worked as a Carpenter.
Leslie was working in Esk on the Darling Downs, QLD as a Clerk in a Saw Mill when he enlisted in the Army in 1941 - and later that year married Esme Jean Dolby (b1920 in Brisbane, QLD). Following his Discharge in 1946, Leslie and Esme settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Leslie worked as a Painter. Esme died in 2002 and Leslie in 2004.
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