STEVENS, Leslie Douglas
| Service Number: | 486 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Hotham, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Queenstown, West Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer's Assistant |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 February 1937, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 486, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 486, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 486, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 19 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 486, Australian Army Service Corps, 1st Anzac Mounted Division, Palestine: GSW arm and thigh | |
| 23 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Trooper, 486, 4th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Suez for Melbourne on board HMT Argyllshire | |
| 2 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 486, 4th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Leslie Douglas Stevens (Service No:486) enlisted in the AIF on 21 August 1914 and was attached to 3rd Light Horse Regiment 'C' Squadron when he embarked with his Unit from Hobart for Gallipoli on board HMAT Geelong A2. Trooper Stevens served in Egypt - including Gallipoli, Mudros, Khatalaba, Girgi, Rafa, Damascus and Palestine - with 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 1st Anzac Battalion Imperial Camel Corps and 4th Light Horse Regiment. Trooper Stevens was hospitalised with Bronchitis (1916) and GSWs to arm and thigh (1917), and embarked from Suez for Melbourne on board HMT Argyllshire on 23 December 1918. Private Stevens was attached to 4th Light Horse Regiment at Discharge on 2 April 1919.
James (Les) Leslie Douglas Stevens was born in Hotham, Victoria in 1888, eldest of nine children of James Stevens (b1857 in Swansea, tasmania) and Helen Watt (b1864 in Langley, Victoria). James (a Labourer) and Helen married in 1886 in Hotham, Victoria. They lived in Hotham before moving to Parkes, NSW in the early 1890s, returning to Victoria by 1901. In Victoria James and Helen lived in Cobden and Hotham before settling in Melbourne - James was a Labourer and Farmer.
Les served with the Militia (18th Light Horse Regiment) for two years before leaving Victoria for Tasmania where he was working as a Grocer's Assistant in Queenstown in 1914 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Les returned to Tasmania where he was a Grocer in Gormanston,and in Hobart in 1920, he married Linda Isabelle Elkin (b1902 at Battery Point, Tasmania). Les and Linda settled in Gormanston where they raised their family and Les worked for Mt Lyall Mining and Railway Coy as a Shop Hand, Labourer and Underground Tally Clerk until mid 1934. Moving to melbourne, Victoria in July 1934, Les worked as a Tally Clerk for Wallam East Saw Mill. Les died in 1937 and the following year Linda remarried.