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NEWTON, Leonard Joseph
| Service Number: | 3241 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ullina, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Ullina, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | 26 December 1956, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | State School Ullina No 763 Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3241, 27th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 12 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3241, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3241, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Adelaide | |
| 6 Feb 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3241, 27th Infantry Battalion, SW to right thigh sustained at Flers. Evacuated to UK. | |
| 23 Oct 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3241, 27th Infantry Battalion, RTA 22 July 1917 and discharged as MU (wounds). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Leonard Joseph Newton, aged 25, enlisted in the AIF in Adelaide on 4 August 1915. He embarked overseas on 12 January 1916 bound for Egypt. He didn’t stay long in Egypt as he departed for France on 21 March and disembarked at Marseilles 6 days later.
He was hospitalised in England with pleurisy from 24 July – 17 October 1916 and was fortunate to miss the carnage of Pozieres as a result. He returned to France on 12 December, where he re-joined his battalion on 23 December 1916.
On 6 February 1917, he was manning the front line near Flers, on the Somme, when he sustained a shrapnel wound to his right thigh. He was again evacuated to England, where he was hospitalised until 26 June 1917.
He never recovered from his wound and departed England for Australia on 22 July 1917.
He arrived back in Adelaide on 21 September, where he was medically discharged from the AIF on 23 October 1917.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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