AMOUROUS, Leonard
| Service Number: | 94 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Narromine, New South Wales, Australia, 4 August 1864 |
| Home Town: | Catherine Hill Bay, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine driver |
| Died: | Heart failure, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 4 December 1936, aged 72 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-32. 135. |
| Memorials: | Catherine Hill Bay Great War Honour Roll of Soldiers, Swansea Catherine Hill Bay Cornstalk Lodge No 226 G.U.O.F.G Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Aug 1914: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 94, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit due to wounding Gallipoli | |
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| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 94, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 94, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 94, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
87 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 6th December 1936, Private Leopold Amourous, referred to as Leonard and Leo, 3rd Battalion (Reg No-94), engine driver from Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales and 10 Woods Parade, Manly, N.S.W. and 43 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W. and Education-buildings, Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W. and 67 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and Wangi Wangi, N.S.W., father of two (Mary Eleanor, Julian John), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 72. CATHOLIC 2-32. 135.
Born at Narromine, New South Wales on the 4th August 1864 as AMOROUS to Julian and Margaret Amourous nee Duffy; husband of Mary Agnes Amourous nee Paton (married 1907, Nymagee, N.S.W., died 2.2.1921, St Leonards, N.S.W., from the Education-buildings, Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.), Leo enlisted on the 17th August 1914 age 50!, at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 19th October 1914.
Wounded in action - 19.5.1915 (GSW shoulder).
Transferred to England 17.8.1915.
Commenced return to Australia 17.3.1916.
Leo arrived home invalided on the 30th April 1916, being discharged medically unfit (GSW shoulder) on the 5th August 1916.
Mr. Amourous’s name has been inscribed on the Catherine Hill Bay Honour Roll, Catherine Hill Bay War Memorial and the Catherine Hill Bay Cornstalk Lodge G.U.O.F.G. Roll of Honour.
The tragic events leading up to Leo’s death on the 4th December 1936 at 67 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. were reported. Leo had been rescued from an upturned boat at Lake Macquarie on the Friday evening of the 20th November 1936 (see link).
I located Leo resting in an unmarked grave, another Forgotten Digger of The Great War, so June 2015 I erected a cross at the gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
A Plaque shall be installed at Leo’s gravesite by the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project to restore his Honour and Dignity.
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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