MCGUINNESS, Leonard Henry
| Service Number: | Q151167 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Yarraman, Queensland, Australia , 16 June 1923 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Primary Correspondence School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Sheet Metal Worker |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 August 1994, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 6 Dec 1941: | Involvement Gunner, Q151167 | |
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| 6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 6 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q151167 | |
| 20 Jun 1946: | Discharged | |
| 20 Jun 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q151167 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner Leonard Henry McGuinness (Service No:Q151167) enlisted in the ACMF on 6 December 1941 with General Details Depot (GDD), and Marched In to 5/11 Field Regiment. Private McGuinness was attached to Field Artillery Training Regiment at Discharge on 20 June 1946.
Len was born in Yarraman via Toowoomba QLD in 1923, eldest of two children of Henry McGuinness (b1899 in Cunnamulla, QLD) and Mary Ann Knight (b1900 in Eukey via Stanthorpe, QLD). Henry (a Labourer) and Mary (a Taioress) married in Yarraman and settled in Darra, where they raised their family and Henry worked as a Labourer at the QLD Cement Works. The couple separated in 1929, and Mary moved to Stanthorpe before divorcing in 1938 and remarrying. Henry remained in Darra, where he was a Cement Worker and served in the Militia (Private; Service No:120848) in 1930/1931. In the 1940s Henry settled in Brisbane, where he worked as a Saw Miller and Meat Worker.
Len worked in Brisbane as a Timber Worker and Sheet Metal Worker, and in 1942 married Jean Lillian Ball (b1923 in Brisbane, QLD). Len and Jean settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and Len worked as a Painter until retirement. Len died in 1994.
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