Leo O'DONNELL

Leo O'DONNELL Update Details

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Service Number:	2025
Enlisted:	29 June 1915, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Victoria, Australia, 8 August 1928, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria Buried under Hugh L. O'Donnell
Memorials:

29 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2025, 28th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
2 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2025, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
2 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2025, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle
19 Apr 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 70th Infantry Battalion, From 28th Batttalion
19 Sep 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 28th Infantry Battalion, From 70th Battalion
9 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2025, 28th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Next of kin given as his sister Agatha Symmons of Strahan, Tasmania.

Commenced return to Australia on 28 February 1919 aboard HT Anchises disembarking on 17 April 1919

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal