Lance Corporal Leslie Hart

Service number 267
Ranks Held Lance Corporal, Private
Birth Date 1897
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Brunswick
Death Date 1915-05-04
Death Place Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Gallipoli Peninsula
Also known as Hart, Leslie Oldham
Final Rank Lance Corporal
Service Australian Imperial Force
Unit 7th Australian Infantry Battalion
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Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Lance/Corporal Leslie Hart (267, 7th Battalion) was born in 1898 at Brunswick, Melbourne and worked as a shop assistant before enlisting in August 1914. He landed at Gallipoli on 25 April and was promoted to lance corporal on 30 April. Only a few days later, while in the front line, he suffered a bullet wound to the head, Leslie died of his wounds on 4 May 1915, aged 17 years. He is buried in Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

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Date of birth 1897
Date of enlistment 18 August 1914
Date of embarkation 19 October 1914
Date of death 04 May 1915
Date of fate 04 May 1915