Leslie Maxwell LITTLE

LITTLE, Leslie Maxwell

Service Numbers: SX22798, S60927
Enlisted: 29 October 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: BCOF Base Ordnance Depot
Born: Mount Gambier, South Australia, 3 March 1922
Home Town: Mil Lel, Grant, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Ground Accident, Japan, 31 October 1946, aged 24 years
Cemetery: Yokohama War Cemetery
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

29 Oct 1941: Involvement Private, SX22798
29 Oct 1941: Involvement Private, S60927
29 Oct 1941: Enlisted Mount Gambier, SA
29 Oct 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX22798
8 Aug 1945: Involvement Private, SX22798, BCOF Base Ordnance Depot
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Private Leslie Maxwell Little SX22798 of the Australian Army Catering Corps (attached to the 1st Armoured Car Squadron B.C.O.F.) was killed in an armoured car accident at Kure, Japan, on 31 October, 1946. Also killed in this accident was Leading Aircraftman John Eric Edlund 132051 RAAF of 481 (Maintenance) Squadron based at Iwakuni in Japan

On the 31st of October 1946 two vehicles from a column of Staghound Armoured Cars of the 1st Armoured Car Squadron overturned, with Edlund & Little killed and seven other soldiers injured. 

A military funeral was held for Private Little on 2 November, with his coffin being borne on the back of a Staghound Armoured Car

(http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Armoured%20Vehicles/austarmourinjapanph_1.htm)

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