HARTLAND, Leslie Richard
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, An original of G Company |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Creswick, Victoria, Australia, 24 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Black Rock, Bayside, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk (PMG) |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Gallipoli, 26 July 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 30 |
| Memorials: | Creswick Honor Roll, Creswick School Pictorial Roll of Honour, Frankston Avenue of Honour Memorial, Frankston Great War Roll of Honour, Hampton RSL Gallipoli Memorial Gardens, North Creswick State School No 2041 Honor Roll, Post Master General Central Staff Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, 8th Infantry Battalion, An original of G Company | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Lieutenant, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 26 Jul 1915: | Involvement 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Honorary Captain awm_died_date: 1915-07-26 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Captain Hartland was born in Creswick, and educated at the State and Grammar School there. At the age of 16½ years he entered the State Public Service Department of Agriculture. Three months before the outbreak of war he received an appointment in the Records Office, Postmaster General's Dept. He joined the Victorian Rifles as a Private under Lieutenant Col. R. E. Courtney, rising to commissioned ranks in a very short time. He was always very keen and anxious to learn and consequently attended a large number of "Schools" in various branches of military science. This qualified him as a very efficient officer. When universal training was substituted, he transferred to the 46th Infantry (1912) and a year later to the 48th Infantry. A few months before leaving for the front he gained the rank of Captain, and retained this rank in the A.I. F. Contemporary accounts say he was a splendid officer, liked by all his men and brother officers, and did his duty to his country in peace and in war, as well as ever an officer did.
Captain Hartland served at the landing at Anzac was taken ill at Gallipoli in May 1915 and after receiving medical treatment, returned to duty twelve days later. He was then killed in action by enemy shelling on 26 July 1915 when he was buried by a trench collapse at Steele’s Post. He was later interred in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. His brother, 1361 Private William Bullen Hartland was also killed in action at Gallipoli on 20 August 1915.
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