NYE, Leslie John Jarvis
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 8 October 1891 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Rockhampton Grammar School, Brisbane Grammar School, University of Sydney |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Heart Attack, Queensland, Australia, 22 February 1976, aged 84 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Rockhampton Grammar School WWI Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Army Medical Corps |
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Son of William Thomas NYE and Elizabeth Martha NYE nee SWAIN
Husband of eileen Marie NYE nee ATHERTON
He joined the AIF on the outbreak of war but was seconded to the RAMC and served in a British regiment. After being wounded he served at a recruit depot at Dover and, later, as an operating surgeon at a British Field Hospital in France. He had been one of the MOs who were rushed forward to help victims of the first gas attack in 1915 and on returning to the front lines he was himself gassed and subsequently invalided home in 1917.
He became superintendent of the Atherton District Hospital.
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