PARKER, William Leslie
| Service Number: | V353907 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 November 1912 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 1986, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 23 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V353907, 1st (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 11 Oct 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V353907, 1st (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, V353907, 1st (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Bill (also known on occasion as Leslie) was the second of seven children of Ethel May Young (born 1887 in Majorca, Central Goldfields, Victoria). Ethel used the surname Parker when her first child was born in 1908, and a 'Joseph William Parker - Travelling Salesman' was entered on Elva's Birth Certificate - there appears to be no known record of JW Parker, and 'Father Unknown' is recorded for subsequent children. Ethel raised her family in Melbourne, Victoria.
Bill was a Boilermaker in Melbourne in 1937 when he married Madeleine Joan Doyne (born 1916 in Canterbury, New Zealand). Bill and Madeleine were living in Melbourne when Bill enlisted in the ACMF in January 1942. He served as a Private (Service No:V353907) with 1 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps and was Discharged in October 1943.
Bill and Madeleine lived in Melbourne, where Bill worked as a Boilermaker until he retired in 1980. Bill died in Echuca, Victoria in 1986.