WILLIAMS, Leslie Roy
| Service Number: | 1699 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 12 December 1889 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newcastle South Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Traffic accident, Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 7 November 1942, aged 52 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-23. 6. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 1699, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 1699, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 3 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 14th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, died tragically, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
95 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 21st May 1928, Private Leslie Roy Williams, referred to as Roy, 14th Australian Light Horse Regiment or Australian Light Horse details, 2nd Double Squadron (Reg No-1699), miner from Merewether, New South Wales and Kings Road, Adamstown, N.S.W., father of four, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 38. GENERAL-23. 6.
Born at Redfern, New South Wales on the 12th December 1889 to William C and Marcella (Ella) A Williams of Rose Street, Merewether, New South Wales; husband of Elizabeth Maud Williams nee Clarke (married 30.10.1915, Hamilton, N.S.W., died?) of Elcho Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, Roy enlisted on the 18th July 1915 with the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 1st November 1915.
Admitted to hospital 4.3.1916 (abscess, mild), 13.3.1916 (influenza), 17.4.1917 (tonsillitis).
Roy returned home on the 11th June 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 3th August 1919.
Mr. Williams’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Merewether Public School Roll of Honor and the Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour.
The tragic circumstances of Roy’s death were reported.
that Lesile's fatal injuries were due to being knocked down by a milk van in Lang Street, Broadmeadow, N.S.W. and died in hospital.
I have placed poppies at Roy’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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