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BASHAM, Leonard Lindsay
Service Number: | 8224 |
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Enlisted: | 1 October 1917, Enlisted Broadmeadows Recruit Depot into Engineers Corps Bendigo |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | Tunnelling Companies |
Born: | Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 7 September 1898 |
Home Town: | Moonee Ponds, Moonee Valley, Victoria |
Schooling: | Junior Technical School & Grammar School, Ararat, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Electrical Engineer |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 20 April 1918, aged 19 years |
Cemetery: |
Meteren Military Cemetery Plot V Row I, Grave No. 907 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moonee Ponds Methodist Church HB, South Essendon Methodist Church HR |
World War 1 Service
1 Oct 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8224, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted Broadmeadows Recruit Depot into Engineers Corps Bendigo | |
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23 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Tunnelling Companies, Transferred to Engineering Reinforcements at Bendigo as Sapper | |
21 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Tunnelling Companies | |
26 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 8224, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Indarra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
26 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 8224, Tunnelling Companies, SS Indarra, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Walter James and Diana BASHAM of 153 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria
Notice of D16 - 6.7.18
No. 8224 Sapper BASHAM.L.L. Aust. Tun.C.Dtls
Killed in Action 20.4.18
The abovementioned soldier was killed in action on afternoon of 20.04.18.
While engaged with a small party of Sappers marking out trenches , at Sheet 27. S.E. R.26.c.3.2. a shell burst alongside, a piece of shell penetrated his head and he died instantly
He was buried near the site by an Army Chaplain attached to an English Batterry.
A small cross was erected over his grave.
Whilst note was typewritten, and a paragraph was created for a Captain of O.C. 1st Army Troops.Coy. Aust.Engrs. it was unsigned