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AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE FIRST CLASS LESLIE R. FARROW JR. was born on July 22, 1923 to Leslie R. and Nellie M. Farrow. The elder Farrow had served in the navy for eight years, and had seen action in the 1915 naval expedition to Veracruz, Mexico. Leslie Farrow Sr. worked as an engineer for the Camden city water department, and was active in the Masons. Leslie Ray Farrow Jr. was the fourth of six children, coming after Geraldine, Philip, and Jesse C., and before George and Evelyn. The Farrow family lived at 529 Newton Avenue in Camden. Five doors down, at 519 Newton, lived former major league third-baseman Ed Lennox, brother of John Lennox, the Chief of Camden's Fire Department from 1932 until his death in 1947. Leslie Farrow attended Camden High School, where he played football and basketball. He enlisted in the United States Navy in May of 1941, and was sent overseas on December 8, 1941, one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Leslie Farrow served as a tail-gunner on Navy bombers. He was aboard the USS Lexington when it was torpedoed on May 8, 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea. He survived a crash on an island and was wounded once in combat. He was grounded after an accident and sent back to the United States to serve as a gunnery instructor at the Naval Air Base in Jacksonville FL. Leslie Farrow was home on leave, when he was killed in a car accident on July 21, 1945. He would have been 21 the next day. He was survived by his mother, brother Philip, of 219 S. 6th Street in Camden, brother Jesse of the Newton Street address, and sisters, his father having passed away September 26, 1942. He was buried alongside of his father, in the Masonic section of Lakeview Memorial Park in Cinnaminson NJ. His mother passed in 1967, and they all rest together. |
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