CLANCY, Leonard Archibald
| Service Number: | 708 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 August 1914, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps |
| Born: | Booligal, New South Wales, Australia, 8 May 1892 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith's striker |
| Died: | Natural causes, Robertson, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1983, aged 90 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Aug 1914: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Private, 708, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 16 Aug 1914: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Private, 708, Sydney, New South Wales | |
| 19 Aug 1914: | Embarked Private, 708, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 19 Aug 1914: | Involvement Private, 708, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Trevor
Private Leonard (Len) Archibald Clancy re-enlisted with his brother 2252 Private John (Jack) Charles Clancy (/explore/people/799400) (who was killed at Gallipoli on 22 August 1915) in early May 1915. Private Leonard Clancy had previously served with the New Guinea Expedition, but was prevented from going to the front with his brother through an attack of malaria, and remained in camp at Liverpool, prior to his discharge.
'PURELY PERSONAL.
We have been shown an interesting letter from Mr. Leonard Clancy, who is with the flying column of the Australian forces which captured the wireless station at Rabaul, New Britain, during the month of September. Mr. Clancy is a son of Mr. Thomas Clancy, who for many years lived at Daroobalgie, but now resides at Ashfield. Len, who is also a son-in-law of Mr. A. Muir, senr., of South Forbes, is well known in Forbes, and his friends here will be glad to know that all is well with him.' from Forbes Times 3 Nov 1914 (nla.gov.au)