R Leahy

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan. 2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 631; POB:Bungendore :POE: Holdsworthy,NSW ;NOK: Mrs R.R. Jaurcey,C/- Bank NSW,Gloucester NSW.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: No ship details available either here or on NAA file.Probably was a Trooper of the 6 Light Horse 4 Re-enforcements
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit:Australian Provost Corps (late 2 Light Horse Brigade Headquarters);DOE:18.12.1914 : RTA:23.12.1918 (NAA File indicates he RTA HMAT Argyllshire at Melbourne 1.2.1919 and proceeded to Sydney).Discharged 15.04.1919.
5. Stephenson:Not mentioned.
6. NAA File:Documents on file extremelyy difficult to read. he was at Gallipoli on 13.07.1915 and then embarked for Egypt where he disembarked at Alexandria on 31.12.1915.In Sinai-Palestine he suffered a GSW to the shoulder on 5.8.1916 whislt serving with the 2 LH and transterred to the ANZAC Provost Corps 5.12.1916. Courtmartialled 10 April 1917.This particular File not Open but Service Record indicates he was charged with allowing a 7LH prisoner to escape from custody. He was found Not Guilty.