HOUGH, Leonard Irwin
| Service Numbers: | 1342, W242933 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1914, Blackboy Hill |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 13th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Busselton, Western Australia, 31 July 1889 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Busselton State School |
| Occupation: | Engine Fireman |
| Died: | Natural causes, Lynwood, Western Australia, 18 June 1980, aged 90 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremated |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 1342, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Blackboy Hill | |
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| 30 Dec 1914: | Embarked Driver, 1342, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ajana, Fremantle | |
| 30 Dec 1914: | Involvement Driver, 1342, 4th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 1342, 4th Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 29 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 12th Field Ambulance | |
| 10 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 13th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 4 May 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 1342, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, HT Runic, Devonport for return to Australia - arriving 26 June 1917 | |
| 17 Jul 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1342, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, Medically Unfit - mutilated right foot |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, W242933 | |
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| 1 Jan 1940: | Enlisted W242933, Subiaco |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Leonard Irwin Hough was the son of Christopher and Isabella Hough of Mt Lawley, Western Australia. Born and educated at Busselton, he left Australia in the SS Ajana on 31 December 1914 for Egypt.
His younger brother Christopher enlisted for service in the AIF in 1915, whilst his older sister, Staff Nurse Edith Hough served with the Army Nursing Service in Egypt throughout 1918. Sadly, 1246 Private Christopher Leslie Hough was killed in action at Pozieres in August 1916.
Private Leonard Hough was in and out of hospital during his time in the army. He was assigned to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force prior to the Gallipoli landing and in early 1916 was transferred to the Field Artillery.
In mid 1917 he was deemed medically unfit, suffering from a historic leg fracture and mutilated right foot. The circumstances of the injuries are not detailed in his service history and he was returned to Australia and discharged.
In 1919 he married Margaret Bennett at Perth. The couple lived in the Fremantle district with Leonard employed as a storeman. In the 1930s they farmed country near Westonia east of Perth.
Moving back to Perth and with the outbreak of World War II, Leonard Hough enlisted for home service.
From the 1950s, Leonard and Margret liveed in Riverdale, an inner eastern suburb of Perth. They moved to the Howard Solomon Aged Care Village at Lynwood in the late 70s where Leonard died in 1980 and Margaret passed away in 1986.
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