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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.