Soldier profiles

Name : CLARKE, LEONARD DAVID
Service Number : VX19046
Date of Birth : 03/10/1895
Place of Birth : LONDON, ENGLAND
Known as : LEN
Occupation on Enlistment : GARDENER
Date of Enlistment : 29/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : MOUNT MACEDON, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : CLARKE, AMY
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : AUSTRALIAN DEPOT BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : C COMPANY (SYRIA)
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 20/06/1942
Date Died : 15/07/1988
Age at Death : 92
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
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) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6212703 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, N.S.W. 2/1 and 2/2 Pioneer News 09/1988 p6

Background : Husband of Amy Jane Clarke.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 4.5 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, grey hair. Marital status : married. Marks / scars : scar right elbow. Full time war service : A.I.F. 29/05/1940 to 20/06/1942 which included 753 days active service (247 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East area (embarked from Australia 08/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 10/12/1941). War badge no. 6537. Discharge certificate no. 27700.

Service record
29/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
31/05/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
23/08/1940 Admitted 4 Australian General Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria with influenza.
27/08/1940 Discharged to duty.
11/02/1941 Admitted 107 Australian General Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria with haemorrhoids.
11/02/1941 Admitted to Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
22/02/1941 Discharged from 107 Australian General Hospital to unit.
22/02/1941 Rejoined unit Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria from Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
14/03/1941 Kit recovered in South Australia? A.P.M.?.
08/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
20/04/1941 Admitted ships hospital H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
24/04/1941 Discharged.
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
19/06/1941 Evacuated to 7 Australian General Hospital (not yet determined nervous) and transferred to X list.
19/07/1941 Discharged 7 Australian General Hospital with gumma of right fundus and transferred to Depot Battalion.
19/07/1941 Marched into Depot Battalion from 7 Australian General Hospital.
26/08/1941 Medical class permanently unfit for service.
21/11/1941 Embarked Middle East for return to Australia as medically unfit.
10/12/1941 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria. Reason for return ankylosis right elbow, possible gumma right retina and keratitis left eye.
10/12/1941 Taken on strength R & T Camp Caulfield, Victoria ex hospital ship S.S. Oranje.
23/12/1941 Disposal - leave and report to R & T Camp.
23/12/1941 Granted disembarkation leave 10/12/1941 to 23/12/1941.
23/12/1941 Transferred to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
23/12/1941 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with ankylosis right elbow, possible gumma right retina and keratitis left eye.
18/05/1942 Transferred from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
18/05/1942 Discharged to Reception Camp Caulfield, Victoria from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
20/06/1942 Discharged.