Leonard Mondrook BARTLETT

BARTLETT, Leonard Mondrook

Service Number: NX32757
Enlisted: 18 June 1940, Paddington
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Born: Mondrook, New South Wales, Australia, 8 November 1909
Home Town: Lansdowne, New South Wales
Schooling: Upper Lansdowne School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Singapore, 10 February 1942, aged 32 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Singapore Memorial, Singapore Col 125
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lance Corporal, NX32757
18 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), NX32757, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion, Paddington
18 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX32757, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
10 Feb 1942: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, NX32757, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Leonard Mondrook BARTLETT was born on 8th March, 1908 in Mondrook via Taree, NSW

His parents were Edwad Claude BARTLETT & Alice Jane ROSE who married in NSW in 1887

He married Catherine Nellie MURDOCH in Sydney in 1940

Leonard was missing presumed dead in Singapore on 10th February, 1942 - no known grave 

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Kranji War Memorial in Singapore

Biography contributed by Lynette Bartlett

My grandfather Leonard Mondrook Bartlett only had one child with Catherine Murdoch - Leonard Thomas Bartlett who was born in September 1941 and died in 2011. He never saw his son as he was missing in action presumed killed in the February the following year.

Leonard Mondrook Bartlett came from a very large family and was 1 of 12 children born to Edward Bartlett and Alice Jane Rose. Leonard lived with his eldest brother Edward after their mother died in 1932 and was a farmer/labourer. The Bartletts were farmers, timber getters and gold miners and were a long standing family in the area.

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