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TONKIN, Leslie George
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Numbers: | 1646, 1646A |
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Enlisted: | 5 February 1916, West Maitland |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Taree, New South Wales, Australia, 20 June 1892 |
Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Taree Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Carpenter |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 14 November 1916, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kurri Kurri War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Woy Woy War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Michael Silver
Son of John Ellis Tonkin and Margaret Jane Tonkin (nee McCabe) of Barton Street, Kurri Kurri, NSW. Brother of 445 Private Richard Caleb Tonkin who was killed in action on 19 August 1915 at Gallipoli while serving with the 13th Battalion and has no known grave.