Leo Vincent TRIPP MID

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TRIPP, Leo Vincent

Service Number:	309
Enlisted:	1 August 1915
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Aberdeen, New South Wales, Australia, 31 July 1893
Home Town:	Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Well Gully, Aberdeen, New South Wales, Australia, 20 January 1973, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-102. 135.
Memorials:	Aberdeen Great War Honor Roll

World War 1 Service

1 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 309, 30th Infantry Battalion
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 309, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 309, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: ''
11 Mar 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Driver, 30th Infantry Battalion
30 May 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 30th Infantry Battalion
2 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 309, 30th Infantry Battalion
30 Oct 1919:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, "The Last Hundred Days", 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 124 (30 October 1919).

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served bravely during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

49 years ago today, on the 22nd January 1973, Lance Corporal Leo Vincent Tripp (M.I.D.), 30th Battalion (Transport Section, Reg No-309), farmer from Well Gully, Aberdeen, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 79. CATHOLIC 3-102. 135.

Born at Aberdeen, New South Wales on the 31st July 1893 to William and Winifred Tripp; husband of Beatrice Vera Tripp nee McGinty (married 1924, Waverley, N.S.W., died 1955 - CATHOLIC 2-41. 88.), Leo enlisted August 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Older brother William (30th Battalion (Transport Section), Reg No-310, born 1887, Aberdeen, N.S.W., died 1956, Parramatta, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
William was awarded the Military Medal.

Admitted to 8th Australian Field Ambulance 4.1.1916 (cough).

Mentioned in Despatches, 16.3.1919.

Leo returned home invalided May 1919, being discharged on the 2nd July 1919.
Mr. Tripp’s name has been inscribed on the William Allen Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 24th April 1960).

Leo’s headstone plaque gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Lest We Forget.

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