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REGAN, Leo Basil
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 243 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914, Enlisted Victoria Barracks Melbourne allocated to B Company 6th Battalion on establishment of Unit at Broadmeadows Camp Victoria. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 4 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Williamstown State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Stevedore |
| Died: | Natural Causes , Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Victoria, Australia, 8 April 1958, aged 63 years |
| Cemetery: |
Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted Victoria Barracks Melbourne allocated to B Company 6th Battalion on establishment of Unit at Broadmeadows Camp Victoria. | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Driver, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Driver, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 4 Dec 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Miscellaneous Hospitals - WW1, Admitted Enteric Fever Epsom Hospital UK till 03 March 1916. | |
| 10 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 6th Infantry Battalion, Rejoined Battalion in the field France ex Hospitalisation | |
| 10 Jul 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, Trench Fever & Cardiac Symptoms ex duty France, evacuation return to UK for treatment and further convalescence. | |
| 11 Jan 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, RTA 3MD Melbourne medically unfit Debility after Trench Fever | |
| 5 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 243, 6th Infantry Battalion, Discharged 3MD Melbourne medically unfit Trench Fever debility |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Pam Hamilton
243 Private Leo Regan , original member of the 6th Infantry Battalion, Service on Gallipoli April to September 1915 & France / Belgium March to July 1917.
Late resident of Nelson's Place Williamstown Victoria (1918).