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Agency:
Pitfield Family
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Start Date:
01 Jan 1938
Description:
Leonard Charles Pitfield (1886 - 1953) was born in Hobart, the son of Charles Pitfield and his wife Eleanor Elizabeth (nee Creswell). Admitted to the Bar as a legal practitioner in 1907, he served with the Flying Corp during WW1, then joined the Tasmanian Solicitor-General's Department in Jul 1920 where he was first appointed solicitor to the Lands Titles Department and later became Recorder of Titles there in 1945. ;;He retired in 1950. He lived at 40 Montagu Street, New Town and when he died he had been predeceased by a son Alan, and survived by a wife, son Ron and two daughters Valerie and Peggy. He was cremated at Cornelian Bay Cemetery on the 22 July 1953. Hobart.
Information Sources:
Mercury obituary Tue 21 Jul 1953 p12
Series Created By Agency:
NS1548 8Mm Films of Hobart and Family Activities01 Jan 193831 Dec 1941