POLL, Leslie Victor
| Service Number: | 1989 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 October 1916, Enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground Camp at Moore Park in Sydney. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 63rd Infantry Battalion (BCOF) |
| Born: | Thornleigh, New South Wales, Australia, April 1898 |
| Home Town: | Waitara, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Cleaner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 3 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Hornsby War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1989, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, Enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground Camp at Moore Park in Sydney. | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1989, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, Embarked on RMS 'Osterley' at Sydney. | |
| 23 Aug 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1989, 63rd Infantry Battalion (BCOF), Taken on the strength of the 63rd Battalion in England before proceeding to France to reinforce the 36th Battalion. | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1989, 36th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Leslie Victor POLL (Service Number 1989) was born about April 1898 at Thornleigh in Sydney.
His next of kin was Poll’s father William James Poll, living in Waitara, Sydney, Poll claimed 4½ years military experience in the senior cadets and the Militia, when he enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Showground camp at Moore Park in Sydney on 23rd October 1916.
He was initially allotted to the 6th Reinforcements to the Light Trench Mortar Brigade. Poll embarked RMS ‘Osterley’ at Sydney on 10th February 1917. The ship reached Plymouth (England) on 11th April. Poll joined the 63rd Battalion before proceeding overseas through Southampton to France on 23rd August to reinforce the 36th Battalion, where he was taken on the strength at Rouelles on 1st September 1917.
On 3rd October he was reported as wounded in action, but this was changed the next day to killed in action, in Belgium.
Leslie Poll has no known grave and he is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board