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Leonard Charles HORNABROOK

Regimental number1992
Place of birthKapunda, South Australia
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationStudent
Address133 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, Rev Canon Hornabrook, 133 South Terrace, South Australia
Previous military service78th Battalion
Enlistment date21 September 1914
Rank on enlistmentCorporal Driver Mechanic
Unit name300th Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps (17th Divisional Ammunition Column (9th Army Service Corps)
AWM Embarkation Roll number25/99/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal RollLeicestershire Regiment
FateKilled in Action 21 May 1918
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialEtaples Military Cemetery (Plot XXVIII, Row L, Grave No 4), France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: the Venerable Archdeacon Charles Soward and Anna Elizabeth HORNABROOK, Adelaide
Family/military connectionsUncle: Major Rupert Walter HORNABROOK, Australian Army Medical Corps, returned to Australia, 26 September 1917.
Other details

Discharged from the AIF; enlisted in the British Army (Leicestershire Regiment).

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsFamily name recorded incorrectly on Embarkation Roll as HORNIBROOK.

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