CONROY, Leo Adrian
| Service Number: | 920 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dookie, Victoria, Australia, 3 April 1892 |
| Home Town: | Preston, Darebin, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Birregurra, Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School Teacher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 23 August 1918, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Heath Cemetery, Picardie |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 920 | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 920, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 920, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 920, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 920 awm_unit: 6th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-08-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Andreena Hockley
Leo Adrian Conroy, late junior teacher at School 2957, Victoria Park, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Conroy, of 14 South-street, Preston. He was born at Dookie on the 3rd of April, 1892, and he received his early education at Birregurra and Whittlesea.
In 1907, he became a junior teacher at Newport, and later was transferred to Victoria Park, where he was reported upon as "a good young teacher with a fine, vigorous style."
He was always fond of soldiering, joining the 5th A.I.R. at the age of sixteen. When that force was disbanded in 1911, he gained his commission as Lieutenant in the Senior Cadets, and he held that position to within a few months of his joining the Expeditionary Forces.
He enlisted early in August, 1914, left Australia on the 18th of October, 1914, with the 6th Battalion, was wounded at Gallipoli on 21st July, 1915, and sent to England. He left England for Egypt. on 21st December, 1915. On arrival there, he entered an Officers' Training School. From Egypt he went to France, where he was again wounded (19th July, 1916), and was in hospital at Etaples. He rejoined his unit again, and, in June, 1917, was selected to attend a Bayonet School at Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains.
After a course there, he was transferred to the Gymnastic and Physical Culture College, Aldershot, where he remained until they called for volunteers for France on the 11th of November. He went over to France on the 13th of November, and remained there until the time of his death. He was killed in action on the 23rd of August, 1918.
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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