WILKES, Leslie Valentine
| Service Number: | 3446 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 15th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Leederville, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | West Leederville State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Cardiac Arrest, 23 August 1975, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | West Leederville State School Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 3446, 6th Field Company Engineers | |
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| 24 Nov 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 3446, 6th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Nov 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 3446, 6th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 21 Mar 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 15th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Leslie Valentine Wilkes was born in Granville, NSW, Australia, 14th February 1893. It was St Valentines Day.
He said he remembered coming to Fremantle by sailing ship before the turn of the century. Grandfather built his home in Northwood Street, West Leederville and Les Wilkes went to the West Leederville State School. He first worked in the State Government Lands Department, but opted to become a Carpenter and Joiner. He later worked for Miller’s Timber and Trading Co around Pinjarra building cottages for the timber workers.
Made redundant when the Depression came and for sustenance money was employed by the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Dept in the building of Canning Dam.
He remained with them in Loftus Street, Leederville until he retired at 60 on the Veterans Affairs Pension.
Married 27th September, 1920, Kathleen Dulcie Kirkpatrick, a trained nurse and midwife.
They were both 27 years of age. Location St. Bartholomews Anglican Church in the old East Perth Cemetery. They moved into a new War Service Home in 1921.
Address 37 Waylen Road, West Subiaco, WA.
I was an only child born 1927.
My father died 1975 aged 83 years of age in Hollywood Repatriation Hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was cremated in the Karrakatta Cemetery, Nedlands, WA.
His Plague is in the Garden Beds.
A loving and kind man, a true blue Australian.
Elixabeth Duxbury