Leigh Vial

Flight Lieutenant Leigh Vial in 1942

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.

References

• Vial, Leigh Grant (1909–1943) – Australian Dictionary of Biography Online