Participant Info

Given Name

Leslie Bilsbury

Family Name

Garson

Service Number

2nd Lieutenant

Place of Birth

Northcote VIC

Occupation

Teacher

Place of Enlistment

Inglewood VIC

Next of Kin

Sister, Jane Auger, Orbost Victoria

Address on Enlistment

N/A

Unit on Embarkation

Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, C Flight

Age at Embarkation

22

Embarkation Vessel

RMS Omrah, Melbourne VIC on 17 January 1917

Rank on Enlistment

2nd Lieutenant

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Lieutenant

Date of Return

28/01/1919

Place of death or wounding

Date of Death

Fate

RTA

Place of burial/memorial

Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

joined Bairnsdale High in 1913

Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4028301