Leslie Francis ESSEX

ESSEX, Leslie Francis

    Service Number: 2404
    Enlisted: 10 January 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
    Born: Perth, Western Australia., 26 April 1897
    Home Town: Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
    Schooling: Fremantle School, Western Australia.
    Occupation: Telephonist
    Died: Wounds, Belgium, 26 August 1917, aged 20 years
    Cemetery: Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
    Plot 2 Row F,
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Postmaster General's Department Perth WWI HR
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    World War 1 Service

    10 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2404, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
    20 Sep 1916: Involvement Private, 2404, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Uganda embarkation_ship_number: A66 public_note: ''
    20 Sep 1916: Embarked Private, 2404, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Uganda, Fremantle
    26 Aug 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2404, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, Died from severe shell wounds to his head at 13 Australian Field Ambulance 26 August 1917.

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    Biography contributed by Nola Holt

    Leslie Francis Essex was born on 26 April 1897 in Fremantle, Western Australia, to William Joseph Essex (1866-1912) and Mary Jane Halliday (1868-1944). He left on the ship the "Uganda" from Fremantle on 20 August 1916 and sailed to Southampton, England. From there he went to Havre and into battle with the 5/51st Battalion of the AIF.

    Leslie's cousin Leonard George Crabbe(19904) was also Killed in Action in Ploegsteert, Belgium, on 25 June 1917.

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