Bernard Leonard REILLY

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REILLY, Bernard Leonard

Service Number:	11527
Enlisted:	6 October 1915
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	4th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Newmarket, Cambridge, England, 11 October 1893
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Seaman
Died:	New South Wales, Australia, 12 November 1986, aged 93 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Leeton General Cemetery, NSW Lawn, D, 024
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World War 1 Service

6 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 11527, 5th Field Company Engineers
15 Jan 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 11527, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
15 Jan 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 11527, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Osterley, Sydney
17 Sep 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 11527, 4th Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Karleen Reilly

He worked as a labourer in Sydney on discharge, the came to the Leeton area working for McKenzie widening the water canals in 1923.

He married Edith Bessie Pepper from Colinroobie, (near Leeton)

He worked on the WC&IC on the channel maintenance gang until retirement and then as a cleaner at Lanhams's Ford in the workshop until final retirement in his 80s

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