PIPER, Heydon Leslie
| Service Number: | 17826 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 April 1917, Enlisted in Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia , 1885 |
| Home Town: | Cronulla, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storekeeper |
| Died: | Coogee, New South Wales, Australia , 3 February 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Dungog School Roll of Honour Great War |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 17826, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Enlisted in Sydney | |
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| 8 Aug 1917: | Involvement Private, 17826, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Aug 1917: | Embarked Private, 17826, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 9 Jan 1919: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Australian General Hospital, Marched in to 1st AGH Sutton Veny | |
| 16 Sep 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 17826, 1st Australian General Hospital, Embarked aboard HMAT Euripides in England, for return to Australia | |
| 23 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 17826, 1st Australian General Hospital, Discharged in 2nd Military District, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Karan CAMPBELL-DAVIS
Heydon Leslie PIPER was born in 1885 in Newcastle, New South Wales, the youngest of four children to parents Edward and Eliza (née WOODS) PIPER. (* His birth registration is in the name of Leslie PIPER)
After serving 12 months of Home Service with the Australian Army Medical Corps at the Liverpool Garrison Hospital, Heydon was accepted into the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in Sydney, on 16th April 1917. Following his recruit training at Liverpool, he was assigned as a Private in the Australian Army Medical Corps, embarking for England on 3rd August 1917.
Although Heydon spent a large part of his service in England as a hospital patient himself, due to recurrent bouts of nephritis and epilepsy, he was transferred for duty to the 1st Australian General Hospital in Sutton Veny, England, on 9th January 1919, where he spent the majority of that year. He was returned to Australia for discharge in Sydney on 23rd November 1919. Heydon died in Coogee NSW on 3rd February 1959, aged 73. He's buried in the Woronora Memorial Park.
Compiled by Karan CAMPBELL-DAVIS from historical records kept by the National Archives of Australia, Births, Deaths and Marriages NSW and Find A Grave website.
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