Regionald Leslie Read MORAN
Year of Birth: 1923
Place of Birth: Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Enlistment: 19 August 1942, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Australian Defence Force: Royal Australian Air Force
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Unit(s): No. 41 Squadron
Service Number: 69088
Died: 25 January 1945
Age: 22 years
Buried: Cairns War Cemetery – Plot A – Row C – Grave 10
Leslie Reginald Read Moran was born on the 10 January 1922, Caringbah, New South Wales to Leslie and Lenore Millicent (Read) Moran. He enlisted in Sydney and his religion was Roman Catholic.
In 1943 he married Constance Margaret Voight, in Lithgow New South Wales and had one son.
While on duty in the engine build-up shop at No. 8 Wharf Cairns, using an electric valve grinding machine, Leslie sustained an electric shock when he turned the machine on, which caused his death.
Reginald Leslie Read Moran’s name is on Lithgow Roll of Honour board and is located at panel 103 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Online Resources
NAA: A705, (MORAN Reginald Leslie) National Archives of Australia
Department Veterans’ Affairs Nominal Rolls
National Library of Australia: Trove Digitised Newspapers
Queensland Registrar of Births Deaths & Marriages
New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages Index
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