Edward Lawson LEONARD

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LEONARD, Edward Lawson

Service Number:	N51279
Enlisted:	16 January 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Temora, NSW, 9 February 1919
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Injuries, Mullewa Hospital, WA, Australia, 7 November 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Geraldton War Cemetery, Western Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sapper, N51279
16 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N51279

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

DEATH BY MISADVENTURE
TRUCK OVERTURNS
FATALITY NEAR MULLEWA
At the Mullewa Courthouse on Tuesday last the coroner (Mr. K. H. Parker) conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death at the Mullewa Hospital on November 7th of a soldier named Edward Lawson Leonard, aged nineteen years, who the previous night was pinned beneath a truck which overturned on the Mullewa - Pindar Road.
Inquest continued...
(note - Sapper Leonard was a passenger in the rear of the truck)
Ref.- Geraldton Guardian and Express (WA : 1929 - 1947), Sat 20 Nov 1943, Page 1

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