For a short time , Leak was involved in a firewood business with a couple of other returned servicemen , then spent time working in regional New South Wales . Next , he moved to remote mid-north South Australia where he found work boring wells . At some point his wife disappeared from his life . On 12 January 1927 , he married Ada Victoria Bood-Smith ; the couple were devoted to one another . They began a family , but their first child died in her first year . In 1932 , they moved to Esperance , Western Australia , where Leak worked in a garage . In 1937 , Leak was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal . In the same year , the Leak family moved back to South Australia , and settled near Crafers with their six children . Another child was born in 1946
King George VI Coronation Medal
King George VI Coronation Medal
John Leak