TEMPLEMAN, Leslie Robert
| Service Number: | 6156 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1916, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 27 June 1894 |
| Home Town: | Barmedman, Bland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | War Related Injuries, Randwick Military Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 15 October 1944, aged 50 years |
| Cemetery: |
Yass Cemetery, NSW |
| Memorials: | Barmedman War Memorial, Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6156, 19th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6156, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6156, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 6156, 19th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
6156 Leslie Robert TEMPLEMAN was born at Mount Gambier on 27 June 1894 and was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 21 January 1907 by his father, Joseph Taylor Templeman, farmer, of Elizabeth Street, Mount Gambier. He left this school on 31 October 1908.
He enlisted in Sydney, New South Wales, on 25 July 1916 (23, farmer, single, Church of England) naming his father, Joseph Taylor Templeman of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin and embarked from Sydney on the ‘Ascanius’ on 25 October 1916, disembarked at Devonport on 28 December 1916, and was attached to the 5th Training Battalion.
He was sent to France on 13 March 1917 and joined the 19th Battalion on 31 March. He was hospitalised with dermatitis from 7 to 12 June before being wounded (head, arm and leg) on 18 September 1917 during enemy bombardment during the battalion’s movement into the front line prior to the Battle of Menin Road, and was subsequently evacuated to England on 21 September for further treatment before being discharged from hospital on 27 October. He was hospitalised again with eczema from 22 October to 14 November 1918 in England, before leaving for return to Australia on the ‘Orca’ 19 February 1919, disembarking in Sydney on 3 April, and was discharged from the AIF on 30 June.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
The death occurred in Randwick Military Hospital recently of Mr. Leslie Robert Templeman, of Yass, and formerly of Reefton. The late Mr Templeman was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor Templeman, of Mt. Gambler, South Australia. He spent all his adult life around Barmedman, and followed grazing and wheat farming pursuits all his life. He was a very fine cricketer and was captain and secretary of the Mirrool Cricket Club for many years. He was a returned soldier from the last war, and injuries received during that conflict were the ultimate cause of his death. He was a man of kind and generous disposition, and was much esteemed by all who came in contact with him. He left Reefton with his wife and family early in 1942 to live in the Yass district.
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