Leigh Vial

Australian explorer
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IntroAustralian explorer
PlacesAustralia
wasExplorer
Gender
Male
Birth28 February 1909
Death30 April 1943 (aged 34 years)
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Biography

Leigh Grant Vial DSC (28 February 1909 – 30 April 1943) was an Australian patrol officer and coastwatcher in Papua New Guinea during World War II. While a patrol officer he became the first white person to climb Mount Wilhelm the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea.

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