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Corporal Leonard Launcelot Currie

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Given name
L
Family name
Currie
Gender
Male
Service number
NX50086 and N15227
Conflicts
Second World War, 1939–45
Additional information
Last held rank
Corporal
Unit at embarkation
2/19th Battalion
Service
Australian Army
Veteran Notes/Bio

All information in this section is from the Department of Veterans' Affairs Nominal Rolls. Service records on National Archives of Australia not open for inspection.
Born: 13 December 1919 at Ardlethan, NSW
Enlistment date: 03 November 1941
Locality on enlistment: Young Wallsend, NSW
Place of enlistment: Paddington, NSW
Next of kin: Alexander Currie
Discharged: 05 February 1946
Leonard was a Prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese and his POW record is open for inspection on the National Archives of Australia database. It gives the following: Father, Alexander Allen; Mother, Vera Maine; Destination of report, Young Wallsend, NSW.
It is possible all Currie's listed on the Young Wallsend Second World War Roll of Honour are related.

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