DIENER, Leonard Augustine
| Service Number: | 3755 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 22 July 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3755, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3755, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Leo Augustine DIENER, (Service Number 3755) born at Enmore in 1895, joined the NSWGR as a call boy at Eveleigh locomotive depot in March 1911. In August 1913 he was made a foreman’s junior clerk. In September 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Holdsworthy.
Submitted 16 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Leo Augustine DIENER (Service Number 3755) was born at Enmore in 1895,. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a call boy at Eveleigh locomotive depot in March 1911. In August 1913 he was made a foreman’s junior clerk. In September 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Holdsworthy.
He embarked from Sydney in January 1916. He went v to France via Egypt. He arrived in March. He had three weeks in hospital with Influenza before re-joining his battalion at the end of May. Between 22nd and 25th July he was reported wounded and missing. A year later a Court of Enquiry amended this to ‘killed in action’. He was buried ‘in the vicinity of Pozières’.
After the war his actual place of burial could not be found, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board