Sir Leighton Seymour (Brace) BRACEGIRDLE KCVO, DSO, CMG, MID**

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BRACEGIRDLE, Leighton Seymour

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	24 February 1915
Last Rank:	Rear Admiral
Last Unit:	1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train
Born:	East Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 31 May 1881
Home Town:	Edgecliff, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sydney High School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Royal Australian Naval Officer
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 March 1970, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Boxer Rebellion (China) Service

8 Aug 1900:	Embarked Royal Australian Navy, Midshipman, Officer, sailed onboard SS Salamis
8 Aug 1900:	Embarked New South Wales Naval Contingent, SS Salamis
25 Apr 1901:	Embarked Royal Australian Navy, Midshipman, Returned to Australia onboard SS CHingtu

World War 1 Service

24 Feb 1915:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Lieutenant Commander, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train
4 Jun 1915:	Involvement 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Macquarie embarkation_ship_number: A39 public_note: ''
28 Jan 1916:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
3 Jun 1916:	Honoured Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, ANZAC / Gallipoli
11 Jul 1916:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
22 Sep 1916:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
1 Apr 1917:	Promoted Royal Australian Navy, Commander, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train
9 May 1917:	Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Commander, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train

Non Warlike Service

1 Jan 1935:	Honoured Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
31 May 1945:	Promoted Royal Australian Navy, Rear Admiral , Auxillary Services

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Captain L. S. Bracegirdle, KCVO, DSO, CMG, MID** (1881-1970)

Awarded C.M.G. January 1935

Captain L. S. Bracegirdle, D.S.O., military and official secretary to the Governor-General.

Captain Bracegirdle, in 1898, joined the New South Wales naval forces as a naval cadet, and, as a Midshipman, was with the Naval Brigade
at the Boxer Rebellion in China.

He later served in the South African War, and in 1914 was naval staff officer with the Naval Brigade in New Guinea.

In 1915-17 he commanded the first Australian Naval Bridging Train, and was at the first landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He was appointed Captain in 1924.

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