LUSCOMBE L.H.

Given Names:  Leslie Henry

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Unit:  14th Battalion, 5th reinforcements                                                                           

Rank:  2nd Lieutenant                                                                                                     

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Age:  23 Yrs  11 Mths

Occupation:  Clerk Victorian Railways                                                                             

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Methodist

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  9½ In                  

Weight:  140 Lbs

Chest:  31½-34½ In

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ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  1/3/1915

Place: 

Next of Kin:  BROTHER  Albert Edward Luscombe

44 Catherine Street, Geelong West, Victoria                                                                     

Embarkation Date:  17/4/1915

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  HMAT Hororata A20

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  Benalla  

Embarked:  2/4/1919                                 

Disembarked:  24/5/1919

Unit:  14th Battalion                                                                                                                      

Rank:  Captain

Discharge Date:  25/7/1919                       

Place: 

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  10606

British War Medal:  10773

Victory Medal:  16685

Other:   

BIRTH

Date or Year:  18/5/1891

Place:  Geelong, Victoria                         

Father:  John Wesley LUSCOMBE           

Mother:  Mary Ann EARLE

MARRIAGE

Year:  1933     

Place:             

Spouse: Lillian Marguerite FARRELL

DEATH

Date or Year: 1967                                 

Place: , Queensland                                 

Burial:  ,

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

Originally report KIA at Gallipoli, then POW

Repatriated

Wounded in action 8/8/1915 when taken prisoner interned at Afion Kara Hissar, Turkey

Repatriated arriving at Dover 18/12/1918

MEMORIALS

Kew War Memorial

Kew Presbyterian Church

Australian Natives Association

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

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COMMENTS

Lived at 247 Barkers Road, Kew in 1914