Leslie Neville BRETT

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BRETT, Leslie Neville

Service Number:	610
Enlisted:	20 November 1914, An original of C Squadron
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	8th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Ballarat Orphanage, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Pneumonia, Egypt, 19 May 1915
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row B, Grave No. 256 Ballarat Orphanage Kenney Avenue Roll of Honour
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Fairy School Roll of Honor, Port Fairy St. John's Anglican Church Roll of Honor WW1

World War 1 Service

20 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 610, 8th Light Horse Regiment, An original of C Squadron
25 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 610, 8th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
25 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 610, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Melbourne
19 May 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 610, 8th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 610 awm_unit: 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-05-19

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Neville Brett’s mother died in 1899 when he was 9 years of age and his father died five years later. He was an old boy of the Ballarat Orphanage, and attended Ballarat College later.

His brother 1342 Cecil Ernest Wilford Brett 2nd Field Artillery Brigade was sent home after Gallipoli suffering from pleurisy, and died in the Austin Hospital during 1919 from tuberculosis.

Another brother Charles Walter Wilford Brett served with the 60th Battalion and returned to Australia during 1919.

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