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BOWER, Leslie Harold
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2918 |
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Enlisted: | 12 July 1916, Kalgoorlie, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Horsham, Vic., 1893 |
Home Town: | Geraldton, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Bookkeeper |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 8 August 1918 |
Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery XII B 9, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bridgetown Methodist Church Honor Roll, West Perth Public Works Department of Western Australia Honour Roll |
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Godfrey and Flora BOWER
Mr. C Godfrey Bower, of Linda, has been informed that his brother, Private Leslie Bower, was killed in action in France on August 8. Private Bower who was 22 years of age enlisted two years ago in Western Australia, was for a period of about 12 months in England, and has since then been at the front. He has two brothers on active service, one with the Australian Wireless Corps, and the other with New Zealand Field Artillery.