Jimboomba’s branch of Veterans' Support and Advocacy Services Australia have enlisted the help of Logan Village Museum curator Coralyn Cowin to find out who donated a memorabilia board of temporary sergeant Stafford Kenny James “Len” Lenoy.
With the recent closure of Jimboomba VSASA memorabilia is being passed over to the Jimboomba RSL sub-branch or handed back to family, if they can be found.
There are eight medals on the memorabilia board including two service stars, a war medal, one long service, good conduct medal, the UN service medal of Korea, a Korean medal, an Australian service medal and one unknown.
There is also a return from active service badge, a Kapyong citation and an infantry combat pin.
Temporary sergeant Len Lenoy was born in 1923 in Cairns to Octavius “Ockie” and Janine “Janie” Lenoy.
He was trained in Tenterfield, NSW and was posted to the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion in the Atherton Tablelands, from which he was deployed to New Guinea taking part in the Aitape-Wewak campaign.
After the war he transferred and completed occupational duties in Japan.
He then became a member of the 3rd battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and was deployed to Korea.
Lenoy was killed during an attack on April 24, 1951.
He was initially buried near Kapyong, but was interred at the UN Memorial Cemetery at Pusan.
Ms Cowin said one of the most interesting things she discovered on her search was that sergeant Lenoy was of Aboriginal descent not of Asian descent as most people assumed.
“VSASA often ask me questions about things and they’ve managed to track down family members who own the memorabilia plus we’ve got a few things coming down to the museum,” she said.
“We’d like to find a family member so we can see if they would like to take it home or donated to the Jimboomba RSL sub-branch.
“It’s an unusual spelling and we’ve only found seven Lenoys in the white pages.”
Contact Ms Cowin on 0418 738 468 if you have any information about who could have donated these items to VSASA.
