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VC1335 Leslie Thomas Starevich
Name Leslie Thomas Starevich No.
VC Issue No. 1335 Awards VC
Regiment Australian Military Forces, 2/4th (New South Wales) Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Subiaco, Australia
Place Of Death at his home, Carnamah, Western Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Esperance Public Lawn Cemetery, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. War Graves Section, Grave 1366
Gazetted 8 November 1945
VC Presented 27 May 1947, Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia, Australia
Memorials
Headstone, Esperance Public Lawn Cemetery, Australia
Plaque & Statue on Mallee War Memorial, Grass Patch, WA, Australia
Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Memorial Site of Action, Beaufort, North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
P Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia
P VC Heroes Walk, Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Q, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Tom Starcevich VC Road, Grass Patch, WA, Australia
Starcevich Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia
By The Way…
VC Held By
Army Museum of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia
BORN 5 September 1918
DIED 17 November 1989 AGE 71
VC Won 25 May 1945 AGE 26
Place VC Won Beaufort, North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
War/Campaign Second World War
