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HANNAN, Leonard Vernon

Service Number:	3114
Enlisted:	28 July 1915, Place of enlistment - Bunbury, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sawyers Valley, Western Australia, 1896
Home Town:	Donnybrook, Donnybrook-Balingup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mill Hand
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 29 June 1918
Cemetery:	Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme Plot III, Row C, Grave 18, Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy St Pierre, Amiens, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Donnybrook Preston Road Board, Donnybrook War Memorial

World War 1 Service

28 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3114, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Place of enlistment - Bunbury, Western Australia
13 Oct 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3114, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Embarked on HMAT 'A32' Themistocles from Fremantle on 13th October 1915, disembarking Egypt.
3 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 48th Infantry Battalion
2 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3114, 48th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMT Caledonia from Alexandria, Egypt, disembarking Marseilles, France on 9th June 1916 to join the British Expeditionary Forces.
7 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3114, 48th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to shoulder.
23 May 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 48th Infantry Battalion
27 Jun 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3114, 48th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound penetrating abdomen, succumbing to wounds 29th June 1918.
29 Jun 1918:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 3114, 48th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3114 awm_unit: 48 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-06-29

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of James Charles and Elizabeth Ann HANNAN, Donnybrook, Western Australia.