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WATKINS, Leslie Alexander

Service Number:	639
Enlisted:	9 July 1915, at Keswick
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	14th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Marryatville, South Australia, Australia, May 1897
Home Town:	Firle, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 August 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on Menin Gate., Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

9 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 639, 32nd Infantry Battalion, at Keswick
18 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 639, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
18 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 639, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
15 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Field Artillery Brigade
4 Aug 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 639, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 639 awm_unit: 14 Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-08-04

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