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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
LEANE, Benjamin Bennett |
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Date of Birth |
3 June 1889
(Military records say 19 May 1889) |
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Place of Birth |
Prospect SA |
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Date of Death |
10 April 1917 |
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Place of Death |
WW1 in France |
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Place of Burial |
Queant Road Cemetery, (Plot 1, Row C, Grave No. 1)
Buissy, France |
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Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
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Lived in Prospect (dates) |
Birth until marriage |
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Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area |
Parents home 2 Rose Street, Prospect |
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Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area |
18 Rudolph Terrace, Glenelg 1913 – 1915 |
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Names of houses (if any) |
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Parents |
Thomas John LEANE and Alice Ann SHORT |
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Spouse(s) |
Phyllis Gwendolyn HALL |
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Date(s) of Marriage(s) |
17 July 1912 |
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Place(s) of Marriage(s) |
Methodist Manse, Pirie Street, Adelaide SA |
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Children |
Gwenyth b 1913 Marjory Maidos b
1915 |
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Education |
School of Mines (Chemistry) |
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Occupation(s) |
Trained in Engineering – Clerk and warehouseman Major in military |
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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 |
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Sources of information |
SA BMDs, AIF Project, Aust.War Memorial site, Trove |
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Principal Researcher |
Lesley Attema (Prospect Local History Group) |
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Photo source: |
Australian War Memorial P02136.001. |