NX25683 PRIVATE Leslie Walter STEWART

Date of Birth:  23 August 1915

Place of Birth: Goulburn  NSW

Next of Kin: Walter A Stewart - Father

Enlistment Date: 29 April 1940

Unit: 1st Independent Company, Australian Infantry

Theatre of Service: New Ireland

Date of Death: 1 July 1942

Place of Death: ‘Montevideo Maru’ Japanese  POW Transport Ship

Cause of Death: Killed when the ship was torpedoed by an American submarine

Notes: Remembered on the Rabaul Memorial, New Britain

Was a rural worker near Laggan when he enlisted.