HORSFALL, Leonard Arthur
| Service Number: | 1057 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified South African Army Units |
| Born: | Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 1874 |
| Home Town: | Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Cambridge Street State School Collingwood, Scotch College, Melbourne University |
| Occupation: | Crown Prosecutor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 23 July 1917, aged 43 years |
| Cemetery: |
Croisilles British Cemetery I E 1 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll, Collingwood Cambridge Street State School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Gunner, 1057, Unspecified South African Army Units |
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Son of Jonas and Emily (née Nicholls) Horsfall.
A cable message has been received by Mr. Cas. J. Horsfall, of Collins-street, that a younger brother, Leonard Arthur Horsfall, was killed in action in France on 23rd July. The deceased who was a son of the late Jonas Horsfall, a former head master of Cambridge- street State school, Collingwood, acquired, a State school exhibition, and took the B.A. and LL.B. degrees at Melbourne University. After admission to the Victorian Bar he left for the Transvaal, South Africa, where he studied Dutch law and became a Crown prosecutor. He afterwards filled the office of Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Transvaal. After repeated applications for leave of absence for the purpose of enlisting he was eventually granted leave, and became a gunner in the artillery forces.
HORSFALL.—On the 23rd July, killed in action in France, Leonard Arthur Horsfall, son of the late Jonas Horsfall, of Fitzroy, and of Emily Horsfall, Darling road, Carnegie, in his 43rd year.
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