Harold Edwin LEEMING (LEEMINGS)

LEEMING (LEEMINGS), Harold Edwin

Service Number: 1793
Enlisted: 27 May 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF
Born: Terara, New South Wales, 27 February 1886
Home Town: Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Illness (war servive related), Redfern, New South Wales, 20 December 1920, aged 34 years
Cemetery: Waverley Cemetery, Bronte, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

27 May 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1793, Liverpool, New South Wales
19 Jun 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1793, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: ''
19 Jun 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1793, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney
31 Aug 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1793, 20th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
9 Apr 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1793, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

Embarkation Roll (www.awm.gov.au) has incorrectly recorded spelling of Surname as LEEMINGS

"Mr. Harold Leeming, who died on Monday from an illness contracted on active servlce, was the third son of the late Richard Leeming, for many years identified with municipal, agricultural, and other institutions' on the South Coast. The ex-soldier was a musician of some note. His remains were interred at Waverley yesterday with Masonic honors." - from the Sydney Daily Telegraph 22 Dec 1920 (nla.gov.au)

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