FYNMORE, Leslie Haliburton
| Service Number: | 628 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 January 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Moonee Ponds, Moonee Valley, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Moonee Ponds State School |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 23 August 1916 |
| 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 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 628, 21st Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 628, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 628, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 628, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 23 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 628, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 628 awm_unit: 21st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Leslie Haliburton FYNMORE was born in 1889 in Moonee Ponds, Victoria
His parents were Frank FYNMORE and Henrietta Ida CARROLL
He had previous service in the CMF with the 55th Infantry before he enlisted in Melbourne on 18th January 1915 with the 21st Infantry Battalion, C Company, 6th Infantry Brigade - they embarked from Melbourne on 10th May, 1915 on the ship Ulysses
He survived a torpedo attack on the troopship "Southland" enroute to Gallipoli & spent 6 weeks at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula
He was admitted to hospital shp Anzac on 18th October, 1915 with Enteric Fever and also admitted to the 3rd General Hospital in Newport on 16th January, 1915
Leslie was Killed in Action on 23rd August, 1916 in France - he is memorialised at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, Australian War Memorial and the Somme Roll of Honour
His war service is also commemorated at the Essendon Town Hall Roll of Honour, Moonee Ponds West State School, St James Church of England, Moonee Ponds and St Thomas Anglican Church (Memorial Hall) - he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal
His brother Sergeant Harry Lovelly FYNMORE (SN2639) also served in the 7th Battaliion and was Killed in Action on 13th June 1918
Another brother James Stewart FYNMORE of the 7th Field Ambulance survived and returned to Australia in 1919. His cousin Lance Corporal Thomas Robert FYNMORE, 2nd Field Company Enginners also returned to Australia in 1919
All of Leslies effects & possessions that were to be returned to his family were lost on the ship HMT Barunga which was torpedoed on 15th July, 1918 - all cargo was lost when the ship sank.
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Trove - In Memoriam
In loving remembrance of my dear son and our brother Private Leslie H Fynmore who was killed in action at Pozieres, France on 23rd August 1916, also served in Gallipoli
An Anzac and Southland hero
"There is a link death cannot sever, Fond remembrance lives for ever"
Inserted by his loving Mother, Sisters & Brothers & Jim & Harry (AIF)
"Duty nobly done"
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"Death hides but it cannot divide, thou art but on Christs other side
Thou with Christ and Christ with me, so together still are we"
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In loving remembrance of my dear sons and our brothers, Private Leslie H, killed in action Pozieres August 23, 1916 and also Sergeant Harry L Killed in Action at Hazebrouck June 13, 1918
"There is a link death cannot sever - fond remembrance lives for ever"
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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