SCHRADER, Leonard Roy
| Service Number: | 1257 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, October 1890 |
| Home Town: | West Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | War related - TB, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 February 1936 |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Mount Hawthorn War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1257, 3rd Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 6 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1257, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1257, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 15 Sep 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1257, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, 5th MD, medically unfit, TB |
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From How We Served
The final resting place for; - 1257 Private Leonard Roy Schrader of Broken Hill, New South Wales and North Perth, Western Australia, had been employed as a miner when he enlisted for War Service on the 20th of January 1916 whilst in Perth at the age of 24.
Leonard, who was a married man, after having been accepted for overseas service was allocated to the 3rd Pioneers, 1st AIF, and was embarked for England and further training on the 6th of June. Following his safe arrival on the 20th of July, Leonard entered camp at Perham Downs, and whilst still in his training phase he was hospitalized due to pleurisy.
Having spent over two weeks in hospital, Leonard was deemed as recovered and was on Leave whilst awaiting to be sent over to France when his health again broke down and he was admitted into the King George Hospital, initially cited as being caused by bronchitis on the 3rd of November.
Whilst being hospitalized Leonard was further diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis and was transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield on the 25th of November, where he was cited as no longer fit for ‘Active Service’ in the trenches.
Instead, now listed as an invalid, Leonard was repatriated back to Australia, departing England on the Hospital ship ‘Kanowra’ on the 14th of January 1917.
After having arrived back safely in Western Australia, Leonard was admitted into the Wooroloo Sanatorium, and following his initial treatment for tuberculosis, he was transferred to the 8th Australian General Hospital at Fremantle where he would undergo further medical care.
Whilst being hospitalized in Fremantle, Leonard received his official discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 13th of September 1917.
In the years after his discharge from the 1st AIF, Leonard relocated to Melbourne, Victoria, but his health was forever affected by the tuberculosis he had contracted whilst in training in England.
Leonard’s death occurred on the 5th of February 1936, at the premature age of 44.
Following his passing Private Leonard Schrader, whose terminal sickness was cited as directly caused by his voluntary service during the ‘Great War’ was formally laid to rest within Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria.
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