Australia Service Medal : Private L N Holmes, 2/47 Transport Platoon

British War Medal 1939-45 : Private L N Holmes, 2/47 Transport Platoon

Places	Asia: Borneo, North Borneo Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin
Accession Number	REL36873.002
Collection type	Heraldry
Object type	Medal
Physical description	Nickel Silver
Maker	Unknown
Place made	Australia
Date made	c 1950
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945

Description

Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

History / Summary

Leslie Norman Holmes was born at Wallumbilla in Queensland on 5 August 1914. He was working as a farmer when he enlisted on 30 June 1940 at Toowoomba, Qld, as a private with the service number QX10342. He served with 2/47 Transport Platoon and spent most of the war in Australia, including nearly two years stationed in Darwin, from February 1942 to end of January 1943. Holmes embarked for Morotai on 11 April 1945, where he spent nearly two months before being posted to British North Borneo on 1 June. He spent six months in North Borneo, embarking for return to Australia from Labuan on the Manoora in December 1945. He was discharged on 21 December 1945.