Soldier profiles

Name : HAINES, LESLIE LIONEL
Service Number : VX22054
Date of Birth : 11/09/1907
Place of Birth : VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : MALSTER
Date of Enlistment : 04/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : ABBOTSFORD, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : HAINES
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA, JAVA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 29/11/1945
Date Died : 25/06/1978
Age at Death : 70
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : BEAUFORT CEMETERY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : JAVA
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : NO
P.O.W. Camps (details) : THAILAND
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : THAILAND
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0036 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6206830 [DIGITISED], Barcode 1033151 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Headstone [photo courtesy of C. Judkins]

Background : Husband of Margaret Joan.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 6 feet 0 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, dark hair. Marital status : married with 1 child over 16 years. Marks / scars : scar under left mandible. Full time war service : A.I.F. 04/06/1940 to 29/11/1945 which included 2005 days active service (45 days within Australia & 1653 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East & Asia area (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 15/10/1945). War badge no. 186881. Discharge certificate no. 311009.

Service record
04/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
06/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
07/06/1940 Admitted Camp Hospital Puckapunyal, Victoria with diarrhea.
09/06/1940 Discharged to unit.
07/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
02/07/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian General Hospital with dysentery and transferred to X list.
06/07/1941 Evacuated from 1 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Convalescent Depot.
21/07/1941 Discharged from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion.
21/07/1941 Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion.
04/08/1941 Marched out from Pioneer Training Battalion to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
05/08/1941 Taken on strength from Pioneer Training Battalion.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action (Java) and transferred to X list.
30/04/1942 Reported prisoner of war.
18/09/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
22/12/1943 Reported interned in Thailand prisoner of war camp.
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
20/08/1945 Recovered from Japanese at Siam.
02/09/1945 Reported from India prisoner of war recovered present location unknown.
06/09/1945 Now believed recovered from enemy place not stated.
09/09/1945 Located Rangoon general condition good.
09/10/1945 Emplaned Singapore.
13/10/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
15/10/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot, Victoria.
15/10/1945 Marched into General Details Depot.
20/11/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
27/11/1945 Marched out to Australian Army Military Forces Discharge Depot.
27/11/1945 Marched into Discharge Depot, Victoria ex Leave and Transit Depot.
29/11/1945 Discharged.