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 Family Name, First Names

LEANE, Raymond  Lionel (Sir) 

Date of Birth

12 July 1878

Place of Birth

Adelaide, SA

Date of Death

25 June 1962

Place of Death

Plympton SA?

Place of Burial

Centennial Park Cemetery

Lived in Prospect (dates)

 

Addresses in Prospect

Parents home – 2 Rose Street, Prospect

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Thomas John LEANE and Alice Ann SHORT

Spouse(s)

Edith Louise LAYBOURNE SMITH

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

14 June 1902

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Christ Church Claremont WA

Children

Geoffrey Malcolm, Raymond Lionel Laybourne, Benjamin David Devine (twin), Allan William Henderson (twin)

Occupation(s)

Retail & Wholesale business in WA until 1914

Local Govt. Councillor in WA

WW1 rose to Brigadier General in AIF

May 1920 Chief Commissioner of Police in SA

WW2 Commander Volunteer Defence Corps

Interests

 

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

One of five sons known as “The Fighting Leanes of Prospect”. Five sons and 9 grandsons of Thomas Leane fought in WW1and WW2

Company commander of the 11th Infantry Captain Leane was reported to have been one of the first men ashore at Anzac and remained there until the evacuation.

Knighted on his retirement from the Police Force in 1944

 

Sources of information

PLHG Newsletter No 11, Uni NSW Defence Force website, Aust Dictionary of Biography, Trove

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema

Photo source

Australian War Memorial P02136.001.

 

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