Leslie Walter Keith (Wally) MAINSBRIDGE

MAINSBRIDGE, Leslie Walter Keith

Service Number: W1588
Enlisted: 20 June 1940
Last Rank: Stoker 2/c
Last Unit: HMAS Goorangai
Born: East Prahran, , Victoria, Australia, 1920
Home Town: Sandringham, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Ship collision , Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940
Cemetery: Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia
Methodist Plot. Row 53. Grave 31. (GRM/3).
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brighton War Memorial, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Stoker 2/c, W1588, HMAS Goorangai
20 Jun 1940: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Stoker 2/c, W1588, HMAS Goorangai

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Walter Norman and Ruby Ellen Mainsbridge, of Sandringham.

MAINSBRIDGE. — On November 20, as result of the sinking H.M.A.S. Goorangai, Wally, dearly beloved younger son of Ruby and Walter, of 4 McLaughlin-avenue, Sandringham, also loving brother of Norman (R.A.N.) and Joyce, also brother-in-law of Beryl, and loving uncle of little Shirley,  also loves fiance Nancy Johnston, of Box Hill, aged 20 years 5 months.

He died for his country.