WW1

LATTIMORE, Victory Reginald

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

Victor Reginald Lattimore was born on 24 May 1897 in Jolimont, the exact address, however, is not known.  He was the son of Arthur Lattimore (1868-1915) and Louisa Augusta, nee Pay (1866-1948).  Arthur has been variously described as a traveller, dairy salesman and grocer.

V R Lattimore and Patterson
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LAVELL, George Charles

Date of birth: 
1893
Biographical notes: 

George Charles Lavall was, by occupation, a horsebreaker. Born in Bairnsdale, Victoria, he was 33 years and 6 months old when he enlisted, a married man, 5' 9 1/2 " tall, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. He was also identified by numerous scars on his arms, knees and abdomen, probably as a result of his occupation.

  • 2623 reads

LAWRENCE, Percival Joseph

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Percival Joseph Lawrence was born in Didmanton, Gloucester, England on 13 April 1892.  He was the son of Joseph Lawrence.  He arrived in Melbourne in November 1913 and settled in Bendigo.

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LEAKE, Lancelot Luke

Date of birth: 
1890
Biographical notes: 

Lancelot Luke Leake was born in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1890. At 25 years old, he enlisted, giving as his next of kin his wife, Jean Winifred Leake. He was well educated and and had a position as a Judge's Associate. His address in East Melbourne -   'Belmont', Clarendon St.

  • 2967 reads

LEARY, Joseph

Biographical notes: 

Joseph Leary was aged 18 at enlistment, and working as a mechanic.  His enlistment form is marked 'not to leave Australia until 19 years of age'. His next of kin and adoptive father was Thomas Henry Haig/Haigh, police constable, of 32 Jolimont Street, Jolimont.

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LEE, Harold

Date of birth: 
1894
Biographical notes: 

Harold Lee was twenty-one years and five months when he enlisted at Melbourne on 7 July, 1915. He was a confectioner by trade and lived with his mother, Matilda Elizabeth Lee, a widowed dressmaker living at 9 Albert St., East Melbourne.

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LEE, Roy Martin Corrington

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

Roy Martin Corrington Lee joined the AIF on 17 June, 1915. He was one of 11 children, six boys and five girls, born to Henry Lee (1867-1937) and his wife Eliza Catherine, nee Walsh (1865-1961). Roy Lee was then 25 years old, married, and working as a Motor or Coach Painter. He had been born in Ballarat, and gave as his next of kin his father, Henry Lee, of Warrnambool.

  • 2801 reads

LEE-ARCHER, Estelle Frances

Date of birth: 
1879
Biographical notes: 

Estelle Frances Lee-Archer (1879-1960) was born in Detention, Tasmania, the eleventh of fourteen children born to John Lee-Archer and his wife Mary Anne (nee Lyons).   

Estelle Lee-Archer
Estelle Lee-Archer with Royal Red Cross (2nd Class) decoration c1916
3AGH and 1SAGH, Abbeville, 1 July 1916. AWM PO3088.018
Extract from letter from Estelle Lee-Archer to Prime Minister Lyons, 9.11.1937
Estelle Lee-Archer's restored grave, Cheltenham Cemetery, Melbourne 2013
  • 8724 reads

LEIGH, Allen Frederick

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

Alan Frederick Leigh was the son of William James Thomas Leigh, a baker by trade, and his wife, Elizabeth, nee Mclean. In 1916, when Alan enlisted at the age of eighteen, the family were living at 476 Albert St., East Melbourne, where Elizabeth ran a boarding house.

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LEIHY, John Henry

Date of birth: 
1896
Biographical notes: 

John Henry Leihy was born in 1896 in East Melbourne, but the exact address in not known.  He was the third son of Andrew Richard Leihy and Marion, née Eivers.  Andrew was a French polisher and in 1916 was president of the Furniture Trade Union. He was also a member of the Total Abstinence Society and in 1920 was vice-president.

  • 3906 reads
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