Leonard Lindsay BASHAM

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BASHAM, Leonard Lindsay

Service Number:	8224
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
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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Biography 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

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