HENDERSON, Leslie Lancelot
Service Number: | 4515 |
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Enlisted: | 3 August 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 5th Pioneer Battalion |
Born: | Moree, New South Wales, Australia, January 1988 |
Home Town: | Boggabri, Narrabri, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 4 May 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-31. 68. |
Memorials: | Boggabri War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Returned Veteran of The Great War, resting in unmarked grave at Sandgate Cemetery, will be officially commemorated with a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, his Honour and Dignity to be restored.
Private Leslie Havelock Henderson, 13th Battalion & 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-4515), labourer (sleeper cutter) from Boggabri, New South Wales and 50 Fern Street, Islington, N.S.W., laid to rest on the 5th May 1959, age 72. GENERAL-31. 68.
Wooden cross erected - 5.7.2020.
Wounded in action - 11.12.1916 (GSW face, jaw), returned home, invalided, June 1919.
Mr Henderson’s name has been inscribed on the Boggabri War Memorial.