TROUT, Leslie William
| Service Numbers: | QP20067, Q122231, QX61800 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 December 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Mitchell, Queensland, Australia, 11 December 1924 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Primary Correspondence School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia., 4 March 2011, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Dec 1944: | Involvement Lieutenant, QP20067, also Q122231 & QX61800- died Mar 2011 (C'Mail 5/3/2011) | |
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| 13 Dec 1944: | Involvement Lieutenant, QX61800, also Q122231 & QP20067 - died Mar 2011 (C'Mail 5/3/2011) | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q122231, also QP20067 & QXt61800 - died Mar 2011 (C'Mail 5/3/2011) | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX61800 | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Enlisted | |
| 21 Mar 1946: | Discharged | |
| 21 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX61800 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant Leslie William Trout (Service Nos:927/Q122231/QP20067/QX61800) initially enlisted in the Senior Cadets as a Cadet Lieutenant, and was at Duntroon Military College on 13 December 1944 when he enlisted in the AIF as a Lieutenant attached to Australian Staff Corps. Lieutenant Trout served in New Guinea, Morotai and Wewak, and was attached to 13 Australian Army Transport Coy at Termination of Appointment on 21 March 1946.
Bill was born in Mitchell QLD in 1924, youngest of two children of Leslie Gordon Trout (b1890 in Brisbane, QLD) and Edna Keid (b1891 in Brisbane, QLD). Leslie worked as a Clerk in Brisbane, and was a Grazier on Calvert Plains at Cotherstone via St Lawrence in 1916 when he and Edna married - and he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Leslie and Edna lived at Calvert Plains before settling at Greenoaks via Mitchell, where they raised their family and Leslie was a Grazier. In the late 1930s the family moved to Brisbane, where Leslie was a Timber Merchant (Supplier of Fine Timber) and served with the ACMF in WWII. Following Edith's death in 1968, William moved to Gladstone.
Bill gave his occupation as 'Soldier' in his Attestation Papers - in 1942 he was a Cadet Lieutenant. Following his Discharge, Bill was a Student in Brisbane in 1948 when he married his first wife Elizabeth (Betty) Pearl Cowin (b1927 in Brisbane, QLD). By the early 1950s Bill was an Accountant, and following Betty's death in 1955, worked in Tweed Heads NSW before he remarried in Brisbane in the late 1950s to Nola Winifred Champney (b1935 in Wooroolin, QLD). Bill and Nola lived in Brisbane, Glen Aplin via Stanthorpe, Wooroolin, Gladstone and Buderim, where they raised their family. Bill worked as an Accountant, Manager and Farmer - Nola died in 2007 and Bill in 2011.
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