CANNEY, Leonard Samuel
| Service Numbers: | S48795, SX22110 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Canteen Service |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 6 September 1914 |
| Home Town: | Blair Athol, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 8 March 1979, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
North Brighton Cemetery, S.A. |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S48795, Australian Army Canteen Service | |
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| 18 Aug 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, S48795, Australian Army Canteen Service | |
| 19 Aug 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, S48795 | |
| 19 Aug 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, SX22110 | |
| 19 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 19 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, SX22110 | |
| 15 Jan 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Australian Army Canteen Service | |
| 30 Oct 1944: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, Australian Army Canteen Service | |
| 3 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, SX22110 | |
| 3 Dec 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Leonard Samuel Canney (Service No:SX22110) initially served with the ACMF (Private; Service No:S48795) with Australian Defence Canteen Service (20 March 1942 - 18 August 1942). On 19 August 1942, Lance Sergeant Canney enlisted in the AIF, serving with Australian Army Canteen Service (AASC) and was promoted to Corporal then Sergeant. Sergeant Canney was attached to 30 Australian Army Canteen Service at Discharge on 3 December 1945.
The eldest of two children, Leonard was born in 1914 to Samuel Mackie Canney (b1893 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Elsie May Stevenson (b1894 in Sydney, NSW). Samuel and Elsie married in 1912 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Leonard worked as a Commercial Traveller in Adelaide, where in 1936 he married first wife Margaret Marion McBurney(b1920 in Adelaide, South Australia). Following Margaret's death in 1954, Leonard remarried in 1956 to Jean Mary Kernick (b1920 in Adelaide, South Australia). Leonard died in 1979 and Jean in 2002.
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