BERMAN, Leslie
| Service Number: | 221 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 8 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 3 May 1891 |
| Home Town: | Bendemeer, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Woolbrook Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer (railway employee) |
| Died: | 24 March 1957, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-198. 50. |
| Memorials: | Bendemeer & District Memorial Gates, Woolbrook Public School WW1 Roll of Honour, Woolbrook War Memorial and Flagpole |
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 29th March 1957, Private Leslie Berman, 36th Battalion (signaller, Reg No-221), labourer (railway employee), from Bendemeer, New South Wales and Mayfield?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 65. ANGLICAN 3-198. 50.
Born at Hay, New South Wales on the 3rd May 1891 to James, died 1940?, from Woolbrook, N.S.W., and Esther Ann McDonald Berman, died 16.8.1947, Gosford, N.S.W., age?; husband of Ivy Valetta Berman nee Fisher, married 1914, Tamworth, N.S.W., died 14.4.1966, Boolaroo or Warners Bay, N.S.W., age 73, ashes interred at Newcastle Memorial Park, from Bendemeer, New South Wales, Les enlisted on the 18th March 1916 at Black Mountain, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 13th May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 3.1.1917 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 7.6.1917 (shell shock, Battle of Messines).
Invalided to England 13.6.1917.
Commenced return to Australia 28.8.1917.
Les arrived home invalided on the 24th October 1917, being discharged medically unfit (traumatic neurasthenia) on the 24th November 1917.
Mr. Berman’s name has been inscribed on the Walcha and District War Memorial, Woolbrook War Memorial, Woolbrook First World War Roll of Honour, Woolbrook Public School First World War Roll of Honour, Uralla Parish Service Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the NSW Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour 1914-1919.
I have placed poppies at Les’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DIED, 28.3.1957, should be 24.3.1957.
Officially commemorated 17.10.1957 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...#.
Plaque incorrectly inscribed 26th Battalion.
5? brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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