Leonard Ronald LISHMUND

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LISHMUND, Leonard Ronald

Service Number:	SX33581
Enlisted:	24 April 1944, Wayville, South Australia
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan)
Born:	Kingscote, South Australia, 23 January 1926
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior assistant (PMG)
Died:	Flying Accident, At sea (between Ambon and Darwin), 19 December 1945, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Ambon Memorial, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia. Column 6.
Memorials:	Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

24 Apr 1944:	Enlisted Private, SX33581, Wayville, South Australia
24 Apr 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, SX33581
25 Apr 1944:	Involvement Private, SX33581
27 Mar 1945:	Transferred Private, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
13 Aug 1945:	Promoted Corporal, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1945:	Transferred Corporal, 66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan)
19 Dec 1945:	Involvement Corporal, SX33581, 66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan)

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Biography

Emplaned at Moratai on 19 Dec 1945 for medical evacuation to Darwin. Plane lost between Ambon and Darwin.

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