Elisha Alexander LETHLEAN

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LETHLEAN, Elisha Alexander

Service Number:	295
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Concussion and Exposure, Bingara, July 1946, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 295, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

BOER WAR VETERAN
DIES FROM EXPOSURE
TAMWORTH, Sunday. — Lying out all night in freezing weather after being thrown from his sulky, which hit a stump, Elisha Alexander Lethlean (76), veteran of the Boer War and the Great War, was found dead about 2000 yards from his hut at Bingara.
Death resulted from exposure and concussion. When found the horse was still in the sulky shafts.

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