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Leslie Melville THOMPSON

Regimental number3233
Date of birth11 March 1892
Place of birthNorth Adelaide, South Australia
SchoolNorth Adelaide Public School, South Australia
ReligionCongregational
OccupationClerk
AddressBarton Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation24
Next of kinMother, Mrs Frances Hannah Eliza Thompson, Barton Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia
Enlistment date24 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name50th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/67/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A35 Berrima on 16 December 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal RollAustralian Army Pay Corps
FateEffective abroad (still overseas)
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Plaque in South Australian Garden of Remembrance
Discharge date16 February 1920
Family/military connectionsBrother: 34234 Sergeant Leonard Abbott THOMPSON, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, returned to Australia, 16 January 1919.
Other detailsWar service: France, Belgium. Contracted illness, December 1917; invalided to Harefield, England.
Date of death13 July 1967

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