COOTE, Leslie Vivian Harcourt
| Service Number: | 25591 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Orange, New South Wales, Australia, February 1892 |
| Home Town: | Hurstville, Kogarah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 16 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunnedah Public School WW1 Honour Roll, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Municipality of Hurstville Pictorial Honour Roll No 1 |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 25591, 22nd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jul 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 25591, 22nd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 16 Apr 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 25591, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 25591 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1918-04-16 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
No railway employment record card can be located for Leslie Vivian Harcourt COOTE, (Service Number 25591). He had been born at Orange about February 1892. Annual Report lists show that he was appointed as an office boy in the Engineer for Existing Lines Branch on 2 July 1906. In 1908 he was still an office boy in the Permanent Way Branch on the section Werris Creek to Woolabra, and in 1911 a junior clerk at Newcastle. By 1914 he had become an adult clerk in Sydney, still in the Permanent Way Branch. At the time of his enlistment on 1 February 1916 he was not married. He did have an enormous appendix scar.
He left Australia through Sydney on 29 July 1916.
On 16 March 1918 he was taken on the strength of the 104th Battery of the 4th Artillery Brigade. He was wounded for a second time, shell wounds to his feet and head, on 16 April and succumbed to those wounds at the 20th Casualty Clearing Station.
He is buried at Vignacourt British Cemetery, eight miles NNW of Amiens, France.
Submitted 6 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Leslie Vivian Harcourt COOTE, (Service Number 25591) was born at Orange about February 1892. Annual Report lists show that he was appointed as an office boy in the Engineer for Existing Lines Branch on 2nd July 1906. In 1908 he was still an office boy in the Permanent Way Branch on the section Werris Creek to Woolabra, and in 1911, he was a junior clerk at Newcastle. By 1914 he had become an adult clerk in Sydney, still in the Permanent Way Branch. At the time of his enlistment on 1st February 1916 he was not married. He did have an enormous appendix scar.
He left Australia from Sydney on 29th July 1916 on HMAT ‘Orsova’. He reached Plymouth (England) on 14th September. He went to France on 16th January 1917. He joined the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column and then the 4th Field Artillery Battery. In October he was admitted to hospital with a severe shrapnel would to his thigh and evacuated to England. He was discharged and sent on furlough in December 1917. On 16th March 1918 he joined the 104th Battery of the 4th Artillery Brigade. He was wounded for a second time, shell wounds to his feet and head, on 16th April. He died of those wounds at the 20th Casualty Clearing Station.
He is buried at Vignacourt British Cemetery, eight miles NNW of Amiens, France.
-based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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