Leslie Hamilton (Jake) INGS

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Service Number:	NX124464
Enlisted:	20 September 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Binalong, New South Wales, Australia, 2 October 1917
Home Town:	Binalong, Yass Valley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Railway labourer
Died:	Illness, Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia, 2 October 1996, aged 79 years
Cemetery:	Binalong Cemetery, NSW
Memorials:	Yass WW2 Honour Roll

20 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Private, NX124464, 56th Infantry Battalion
10 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, NX124464, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
5 Jul 1944:	Transferred Corporal, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, In Queensland
17 Jul 1945:	Wounded Corporal, NX124464, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, Borneo - Operation Oboe July - August 1945, WIA British North Borneo (injury type not stated)
28 Mar 1946:	Discharged Lance Sergeant, NX124464, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, NSW
28 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, NX124464, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement Lance Sergeant, NX124464, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion

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Leslie Hamilton INGS was born in Binalong, NSW on 2nd October, 1917

His parents were Silas INGS & Ann Rebecca BUNT

He married Jessie Loronda PRINGLE in NSW in 1946

Leslie died on his Birthday on 2nd October, 1996 and is buried in the Binalong Cemetery

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His brother Edwin Horace INGS (SN NX60355) was a Prisoner of War during WW2 and died on 24th February, 1945 (Sandakan Ranau)

Another brother Stanley Arthur INGS (SN N385187) also served during WW2 in the Army and was discharged on 17th January, 1942 (56th Battalion)