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Gosford District Casualties of World War One Clouten, Leslie Service Number 2421 Killed in Action 5th April 1918 Villers Bretonneux, France

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Service Number 2421. Killed in Action 5th April 1918. Villers Bretonneux, France

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Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Bragg, Edmund Allen Service Number 1494

Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Clouten, Leslie Service Number 2421

Killed in Action 5th April 1918 Villers Bretonneux, France

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Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of

Benalyn Campbell

And Vivienne Tranter

in compiling this resource

The information in this file has been extracted from official records

held in the

The Australian War Memorial and

National Archives of Australia

(© Commonwealth of Australia [National Archives of Australia] 2013)

Further information on this soldier may be found online at:

Commonwealth War Graves

The AIF project

Content advisory: This file may potentially contain disturbing accounts of service-related injury and death, disease and family grief. Adult supervision is recommended for children

using these resources. Individual files should be viewed within the context

provided by wider research on service conditions in the 1st AIF.

This resource is presented by Gosford City Council

for research purposes only. Please note that copyright for resources

contained within remains with the original copyright owners.

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NAME Clouten, Leslie

SERVICE NO 2421

UNIT 35th Battalion

RANK Private

AGE at Enlistment 20 yrs 7 mths

PLACE OF BIRTH Dora Creek, NSW

ADDRESS Toronto, NSW

OCCUPATION Fisherman

DATE OF ENLISTMENT 29 Jun 1916

PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT

Newcastle, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE 16th Infantry

NEXT OF KIN Father;- W J Clouten, Boat builder Toronto, NSW

3 Apr 1918 Wyong, NSW

Mother;- Mrs Jane Coulton

PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION

Height-5’ 4”. Weight-. Chest - 32½-35½”. Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Blue. Hair-Brown. Scar over L/Eye Brow. Small Scar left ankle.

RELIGION Methodist

EMBARKED Sydney 17 Oct 1916 per “Borda”

DISEMBARKED Plymouth 9 Jan 1917

NOTES

WOUNDED/ILLNESS Wounded 7 Jun 1917 GSW Abdomen ret England via S Africa Abbeville. Rejoined unit 18 Dec 1917

Wounded 3 Apr 1918 but would not leave

DIED KIA 5 Apr 1918- Villers Bretonneux.

BURIED Buried in Cemetery near the Railway Station Villers Bretonneux

Re-interred Adelaide Brit Cem, Villers Bretonneux Plot 3 Row K Gve 11

MEDALS British War Medal-48482, Victory Medal-48892. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-343507

DEPENDANTS

PERSONAL EFFECTS Letters, Cards, YMCA Wallet, 1 Note Book, 2 Letters, Razor, 2 Photos.

WILL

CORRESPONDENCE Red Cross Letter from Mable Berrill (London)

REMARKS

RED CROSS REPORT about 3pm with 19 others by Shell fire hitting billet at Villers Bretonneux/ other report says hit by gun fire.

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GOSFORD TIMES 2.5.1918.

Private Clouten, one time resident of Wyong, has been wounded for the second time in France.

GOSFORD TIMES. 9.5.1918.

Private L Clouten, late of Wyong, previously listed as wounded, is now reported to have been killed in

action.

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Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 3260918

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