LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Leslie Harold GREENAWAY
Service No: 35290
Born: Willoughby NSW, 22 November 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 March 1941
Unit: No. 7 Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, Townsville QLD, 7 November 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Townsville War Cemetery QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Richard and Ada Greenaway; husband of Daisy May Greenaway, of Palm Beach, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Lakemba NSW
Remembered: Panel 99, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Leading Aircraftman Greenaway, a Driver Motor Transport, was on duty on 5 November 1943, in charge of a squadron tender transporting members returning from stand down leave. He tried to start the engine by clearing a blockage in the petrol circulating pipe when the petrol ignited. He was dangerously injured and died on 7 November 1943.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/16/213