Private Leslie Thomas Prior

Service number 5071
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Carlton
Death Date 1917-05-03
Death Place France
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Imperial Force
Unit 23rd Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Private Leslie Thomas Prior (5071, 23rd Battalion) was a labourer from Carlton, Melbourne. He was killed in the second battle of Bullecourt on 3 May 1917. He is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His mother wrote that he was 15 years 3 months of age at the time of death.

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Date of enlistment 05 February 1916
Date of embarkation 19 July 1916
Date of death 03 May 1917
Date of death 03 May 1917
Date of fate 03 May 1917