Leslie Thomas STEVENS

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STEVENS, Leslie Thomas

Service Number:	1711
Enlisted:	15 March 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	39th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Waterloo, Victoria, Australia, January 1893
Home Town:	Waterloo, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling:	Waterloo State School,Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Farm labourer
Died:	Pneumonia, Fargo Military Hospital, Wiltshire, England, 31 July 1916
Cemetery:	Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Beaufort War Memorial

World War 1 Service

15 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1711, 39th Infantry Battalion
27 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1711, 39th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
27 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1711, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland

Died on this date – 31st July…… Leslie Thomas Stevens was born at Waterloo, Victoria in 1893. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 15th March, 1916 as a 23 year old, single, Farm Labourer from Beaufort, Victoria.

Private Leslie Thomas Stevens, Service number 1711, embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 27th May, 1916 & disembarked at Devonport, England on 18th July, 1916.

Reinforcements were only given basic training in Australia. Training was completed in training units in England. Some of these were located in the Salisbury Plain & surrounding areas in the county of Wiltshire.
On 27th July, 1916 Private Stevens was admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, Wiltshire suffering from Influenza.

Private Leslie Thomas Stevens died at 10.20 a.m. on 31st July, 1916 at Fargo Military Hospital, Wiltshire from Pneumonia.

He was buried in Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire, England where 140 other WW1 Australian War Graves are located.
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