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GITTUS, Leslie Albert

Service Number:	6832
Enlisted:	28 September 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Macquarie Plains, Tasmania, Australia, 5 August 1892
Home Town:	New Norfolk, Derwent Valley, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in action, Belgium, 3 November 1917, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bushy Park Gretna State School Roll of Honour, Bushy Park I.O.O.F. Loyal Glenora Lodge No 25 Pictorial HR, Bushy Park I.O.O.F. Loyal Glenora Lodge No 25 Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), New Norfolk War Memorial

World War 1 Service

28 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6832, 12th Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 6832, 12th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 6832, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of George & Harriet GITTUS of Gretna, Tas.