Leonard Matthew DOHERTY

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DOHERTY, Leonard Matthew

Service Numbers:	SX15034, S34410
Enlisted:	1 November 1941
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Armoured Regiment
Born:	Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia, 26 September 1910
Home Town:	Gawler, Gawler, South Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Munitions, Salisbury
Died:	Killed in Action, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 20 April 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Plot B3, Row F, Grave 10,
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kapunda District Honour Board, Kapunda and District Fallen Soldiers Monument

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, SX15034
1 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX15034
1 Nov 1941:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, SX15034
1 Nov 1941:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, S34410
1 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Wayville, SA
20 Apr 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, Armoured Car Regiment

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Leonard Matthew DOHERTY was born in Rose Park, Adelaide on 26th Sepember, 1910

His parents were Matthew Leonard DOHERTY & Mary Ellen BURKE who married in South Australia on 5th March, 1908

Leonard was Killed in Action at Bougainville on 20th April, 1945 and is buried in the Bomana War Cemetery

He was awarded the Commander in Chiefs card for voluntary Army Medical research

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Leonards father Matthew DOHERTY (SN 479) was Killed in Action during WW1 on 28th August, 1916

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