Family Name:
Greenwood
Given Names:
Leslie George
Gender:
Male
Birth-date:
Unknown
Death-date:
Unknown
Marital Status
Unknown
Age/ Age Range:
Unknown
Location:
VIC, Hawthorn
Occupation:
Unknown
Primary Motivation:
Conscientious Objector – Religious Pacifism
Reason for Court Appearance:
Application for exemption from military service as a conscientious objector.
Court Name and Location:
Magistrate’s Court, Hawthorn, VIC.
Court Hearing Date:
April 1942
Court Outcome:
Granted a conditional exemption to perform civil work.
Military Event:
World War II 1939-1945
Further Information:
Leslie Greenwood was a member of the Assemblies of God Church.
Confirmatory Sources:
Attorney-General’s Department, NAA (ACT), A8911/1, 111, Item ID 821556. Title: Peace Movements – Victorian State Pacifist Council; Kenneth Deakin Rivett Papers, University of Melbourne Archives Accession: 81/136, 83/100, 87/80, Series 3. Correspondence with Individual pacifists; Paul Wilson, ‘A Question of Conscience: Pacifism in Victoria 1938–1945, Ph.D Thesis, La Trobe University,1984, p. 163; Age (Melbourne), 15 August 1940.
THE AUSTRALIAN PEACE HONOUR ROLL 