Leith Carlyle COLES

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Service Number:	2347
Enlisted:	19 March 1915, Keswick, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia, 18 June 1898
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Junior Porter
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 23 July 1916, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rosewater War Memorial, Rosewater Womens Memorial Roll of Honour WW1, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

19 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick, South Australia
23 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2347, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2347, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Adelaide

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Leith Carlyle COLES was born on 18th June, 1898 at Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia

His parents were Alfred William COLES and Emma Grace MERN