Leslie Welter CASEY

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CASEY, Leslie Welter

Service Number:	7461
Enlisted:	23 July 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, 18 November 1882
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Driver
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1949, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 1 Service

23 Jul 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion
21 Nov 1917:	Involvement Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917:	Embarked Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
9 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion, France - Shell Wound (severe) left arm and chest
20 Oct 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion, per HT Borda
23 Jan 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 8th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leslie was the fourth of six children of Richard Baxter Casey (b1851 in Cork, Ireland) and Mary Elizabeth Chaplin (b1855 in Melbourne, Victoria). Richard immigrated in the mid 1850s with his parents and siblings and settled at Three Mile Creek in Beechworth, Victoria (Gold Rush). Richard and Mary married in 1873 in Beechworth, Victoria and lived there and in Whorouly in Victoria and in Forbes and Cobar in NSW before moving to Melbourne, Victoria in the mid 1880s. Following Richard's death in 1903 Mary moved to Peth WA.

Leslie was a Labourer in Melbourne, Victoria in 1902 when he married Elsie Rae Clark (b1883 in Melbourne, Victoria). Leslie worked as Butter Packer and Driver, and in June 1916 he was rejected for service in the AIF as Medically Unfit. He enlisted again in July 1917 and served with 8th Infantry Battalion (Private; Service No:7461). Leslie was WiA in France in August 1918 - severe Shell Wound to left arm and Chest and was Discharged in January 1919.

Returning to Melbourne in Victoria, Leslie and Elsie lived in Port Melbourne where Leslie was a Butter Packer. In 1930 the family moved to Doncaster in the Flinders Ranges in Victoria where Leslie was a Milk Tester and Grader. By 1943 the family had returned to Melbourne where Leslie worked as a Labourer (according to the Electoral Rolls - his Death Certificate lists his occupation as Engineer). Leslie died in 1949 and Elsie in 1955.

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