George Leslie MCBEAN

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Service Number:	889
Enlisted:	4 September 1914, Enlisted at Roseberry Park, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 23 February 1886
Home Town:	Mittagong, Wingecarribee, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bushman
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 3 May 1915, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 38, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Mittagong War Memorial

4 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 889, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Roseberry Park, NSW
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 889, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 889, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
5 Mar 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 889, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed in action

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Son of James McBean of Barden Street, Arncliffe, NSW

Father of ex-nuptial soon Arthur Edward Aldersen son of Elsie Blanche Alderson of George Street, Waterloo, NSW later of Botany, NSW

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal issued to mother of child. Scroll and plaque to James McBean