O'LOUGHLIN, Leonard Augustine
| Service Number: | 2018 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 9 January 1898 |
| Home Town: | Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Christian Brothers Perth, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2018, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2018, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Leonard (Len) O’Laughlin was only 17 years of age when he arrived in Egypt during late 1915. During the heavy fighting at Pozieres, on 29 July 1916, the 28th Battalion suffered heavy casualties. O’Loughlin was a Signaller and a mate stated he was killed, along with two other signallers, Minett and Vickrage, when a shell exploded on the spot where they were sheltering. His name is commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial.
His brother, 1103 Pte Dennis Francis O'Loughlin, 7th (Light) Trench Mortar Battery, died of wounds in hospital at Rouen, France, only four months later on 26 November 1916, aged 25.
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