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ABBOTT, Leonard Emms
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX29089 |
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Enlisted: | 24 June 1940, Caulfield, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 26th Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment |
Born: | Scarsdale, Victoria, 17 April 1909 |
Home Town: | Yallourn, Latrobe, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Cleaner |
Died: | Thorpdale, Victoria, 21 December 1975, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX29089, Caulfield, Victoria | |
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24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX29089 | |
2 May 1941: | Imprisoned Siege of Tobruk | |
27 Sep 1945: | Discharged Private, VX29089, 26th Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment | |
27 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX29089 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Norman John McMurtrie
Reported missing in action in the Middle East on 2 May 1941, then reported POW on 24 June 1941.
Returned to Australia 8 Aug 1945 and took elective discharge due ex-POW on 27 Sept 1945