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Married: 1940. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:15088/1940.
Wife: Mary Georgina Edmunds Smith. nee: Craig.
Died: 1956. Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert:10241/1956.
Mother: Adelaide Loiusa Smith. nee: Macken.
Leslie Charles Burnett Smith enlisted with D Company 33rd Battalion AIF on the 26th of April 1916. Leslie was serving
with the 38th Infanrty Regiment prior to World War 1, and enlisted with the ramk of 2nd Lieutenant and was an original member
of the Battalion and left Sydney on board HMAT A74 "Marathon" on the 4th of May 1916.
London Gazette 3rd June 1917. Supplement 30111.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 4th of October 1917. Number 169.
(BEAN; History of World War 1 Vol V page 301/324)
Leslie returned to Australia on the 11th of May 1919.
Leslie was a single 21 year old Clerk from "Boronia" Chapel Street, Rockdale, New South Wales upon enlistment where he lived
with his parents. After the war Leslie went back to work with the Commonwealth Bank, in 1952 he worked at the Cabramatta
Branch. After he died in 1956 his next of kin request his ashed be placed in a memorial wall bt the Imperial War Garves Commission.
His parents Charles ans Adelaide Smith were married in 1894 at Rockdale, N.S.W. Marriage Cert:2275/1894.
(Australian National Archives)
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