FRIEDMAN, Leslie Harold
| Other Name: | Freeman, Leslie Harold - Grave Marker |
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| Service Number: | 108A |
| Enlisted: | 10 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Albury, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Musician |
| Died: | New South Wales, Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Privately Cremated The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance Rookwood, Cumberland City Council, New South Wales, Australia Plot -Wall 10, Panel E |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 108A, 1st Australian General Hospital (WW1) | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 108A, 1st Australian General Hospital (WW1), Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board A62 Wandilla | |
| 23 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 108A, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Returned to Australia |
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FRIEDMAN, Leslie Harold (10 May 1891 - 1 Apr 1974)
10 Apr 1915: Leslie Harold FRIEDMAN enlisted, age 23 y11m, musician, as hospital staff, Service No 108
18 May embarkation: Pte Leslie Harold FRIEDMAN; RMS Mooltan ex Melbourne, VIC
25 Jun: Cpl, 4th Field Artillery Brigade - Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board A62 "Wandilla"
1916
20 Jan: transfer to 6th F.A. Brigade as Gunner in 17 Battery in Tel-el-Kebir, Reg No 8290; 8 Mar: re-allotted No 108
25 Mar: travel: Alexandria to Marseille
26 Aug: promoted Corporal
2 Dec: to be W.O. Class 1 (while attached)
1917 21 Apr: reverts to Corporal
15 Sep: wounded in action (left femur); 4 Oct: Left leg amputated; 6 Nov : taken off dangerously ill list
16 Nov: sent to Liverpool (Toxteth) hospital, in UK
1918 23 July - 1 Aug: Returned to Australia
awarded British War Medal (No 13812; WW1)