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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

LEANE, Benjamin Bennett

Date of Birth

3 June 1889   (Military records say 19 May 1889)

Place of Birth

Prospect SA

Date of Death

10 April 1917

Place of Death

WW1 in France

Place of Burial

Queant Road Cemetery, (Plot 1, Row C, Grave No. 1) Buissy, France

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Birth until marriage

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Parents home 2 Rose Street, Prospect

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

18 Rudolph Terrace, Glenelg 1913 – 1915

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Thomas John LEANE and Alice Ann SHORT

Spouse(s)

Phyllis Gwendolyn HALL

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

17 July 1912

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Methodist Manse, Pirie Street, Adelaide SA

Children

Gwenyth  b 1913

Marjory Maidos  b 1915

Education

School of Mines (Chemistry)

Occupation(s)

Trained in Engineering – Clerk and warehouseman

Major in military

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

One of the famous “Fighting Leanes of Prospect”

Received many military awards.

A letter written to his wife just before his death in WW1 was read by Prince Charles at Gallipoli on 25th April 2015 at the ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landing

Sources of information

SA BMDs, AIF Project, Aust.War Memorial site, Trove

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema (Prospect Local History Group)

Photo source:

Australian War Memorial P02136.001.

 

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