Isaac Leonard POWER

POWER, Isaac Leonard

Service Number: 4215
Enlisted: 12 October 1917
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 12th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Eulo via Thargominda, Queensland, Australia, 31 October 1891
Home Town: Tottenham, Lachlan, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 31 October 1960, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW
Memorials: Parkes District Roll of Honor, Trundle WWI Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

12 Oct 1917: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4215, 14th Light Horse Regiment
19 Dec 1917: Involvement Private, 4215, 14th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
19 Dec 1917: Embarked Private, 4215, 14th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
31 Jan 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Light Horse Regiment
4 May 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4215, 12th Light Horse Regiment, GSW shin - Egypt
20 Jun 1919: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4215, 12th Light Horse Regiment, ex Kantara, Moascar per HT Morvada
9 Oct 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4215, 12th Light Horse Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Isaac Leonard Power (Service No:4215) enlisted in October 1917 and served in Egypt/Palestine with 14th Light Horse Cavalry Regiment and 12 Light Horse Regiment. He was WiA in May 1918 - GSW to his shin - and was hospitalised with Malaria on board the HT Morvada during his return to Australia in June 1919. 

Born in Eulo via Thargomindah QLD in 1891, Isaac (aka on occasion as Leonard) was the eldest of five children (and only son) of William Henry Power and Elizabeth Helena Moore. William - who worked as a Labourer and Carpenter - and Elizabeth married in 1891 and by 1906 had moved their family to Temora in NSW.

Isaac worked as a Labourer in Tottenham via Parkes, NSW where in 1912 he married Florence Evelyn Rose Coffee (b1895 in Moama, NSW). Isaac worked as a Labourer and Farmer in Parkes NSW, and he and Florence divorced. In January 1941 when Isaac enlisted in the ACMF (Sapper; Service No:N108009) he gave a false birthdate to present himself as seven years younger, gave his status as single and initially listed his mother as his NoK. Following his Discharge in 1947, Isaac settled in Sydney NSW where he worked as a Labourer, Isaac died in 1960.

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