Sylvester Leonard ANDREWS

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ANDREWS, Sylvester Leonard

Service Number:	675
Enlisted:	11 January 1916
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	44th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melrose, South Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	State School
Occupation:	Mercer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 June 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Wallonie, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bickford Soldiers Memorial Hall Honour Roll and Memorial Plaque, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

11 Jan 1916:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 675
6 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 675, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
6 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 675, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Fremantle
8 Jun 1917:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 675, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 675 awm_unit: 44th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-06-08

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Biography contributed by Rosemary Ritorto

Son of Archibald Frederick and Susan Eliza Andrews.

NOK listed as his sister Guenivere Muriel Wood who lived at "Melrose" Forest Street, Victoria Park East, which late became Beatty Avenue, Carlisle.

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