BOYD, Leslie David
| Service Number: | 489 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 February 1915, An original of B Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Numurkah, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Finley, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Finley Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 28 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Finley War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 489, 19th Infantry Battalion, An original of B Company | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 489, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 489, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His brothers: 1716 Sergeant Albert Edward Boyd, 1st Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 4 June 1919;
1717 Pte Reuben Ernest Boyd, 1st Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 1 November 1917; (amputated right leg)
4246 Private Alfred Norman Boyd 35th Battalion AIF returned to Australia 21 December 1917, (acute rheumitism)
5340 Pte John William Boyd, 14th Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 12 May 1918. (gunshot wound left thigh)
Cobram Courier 21 September 1916. ‘Finley and district is mourning with Mrs. E. Boyd at the loss of one of her five soldier sons, Leslie, who was killed in action in France. The writer knew Private Leslie Boyd when he was a 6-year-old mite toddling to school to be taught English by a German head teacher, and it is regrettable to learn that after serving four solid months on Gallipoli he should be numbered with the slain in France at the age of 21 years. Three other of Mrs Boyd's sons are now at the front, and another is on the way, so it is fitting that any district should mourn with a lady who has given five warriors to defend Australia and the Empire.’