WW1

LEIHY, William

Date of birth: 
1888
Biographical notes: 

William Leihy was born in Fitzroy in 1888.  He was the eldest of the five sons of Andrew Richard Leihy and his wife Marion, née Eivers.  Andrew was a French polisher and in 1916 was president of the Furniture Trade Union. He was also a member of the Total Abstinence Society and in 1920 was vice-president. The family moved to 1209 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne in 1901.

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LENNOX, Andrew

Date of birth: 
1890
Biographical notes: 

Andrew Lennox was 25 years and 11 months old when he enlisted in the AIF at East Melbourne. He had been born in Scotland and gave his next of kin as his sister Jenny Lennot, living at 11 Olm St., Pennycuik, Scotland.

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LENZER, Simeon

Date of birth: 
1893
Biographical notes: 

Simeon Lenzer was born in Fitzroy on 4 May 1893.  He was the son of Jacob Lenzer and his wife Bertha, formerly Zipporah Brocho Lescht.  Jacob was minister of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, emigrating from Russia in 1889 especially to take up the position, and which position he kept until his death in 1921.

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LEWIS, Louis

Date of birth: 
1891
Biographical notes: 

Louis Lewis's only connection to East Melbourne is his mother, cited as next-of-kin on his enlistment form and living at Canally, on the corner of Powlett and George Streets, East Melbourne. At the time of his enlistment, he was just off 24 years old and was working as a railway clerk.

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LEWIS, Raymond

Date of birth: 
1896
Biographical notes: 

Raymond Lewis was a waiter, living in Albert St. East Melbourne when he enlisted on 23 July, 1917. He was a Tasmanian by birth, his father John Lewis living at 269 Murray St., Hobart, with his wife Sarah, nee O'Brien. They had at least four other children: William George (1891), John Francis (1894), Victoria Irene (1898) and Lilian Priscilla (1901).

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LIDDY, Michael

Date of birth: 
1885
Biographical notes: 

Michael Liddy is somewhat of a man of mystery. He was born in Fallas Green, County Limerick, Ireland, probably in March 1885, as Michael Augustine O'Dwyer, but when he came to Australia or when and why he changed his name, is unknown. In 1916, when he enlisted, he was 31 years old and working as a Law Clerk with Mr. W. Murphy, solicitor, of 60 Queen St., Melbourne.

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LINDSAY, Ina Isabel

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

Ina Isabel Lindsay was born in East Melbourne in 1887, but at the time she enlisted in 1916 she was lving with her mother at 'The Hutte' , Irving Avenue, Armadale, Victoria. She enlisted in Melbourne at the end of 1916, when she was 29 years old and embarked on HMAT Orsova A67 as a Staff Nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service.

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LINDSAY, Robert Henry

Date of birth: 
1882
Biographical notes: 

Robert Lindsay enlisted for war service on 18 May, 1916. He was 34 years old when he joined the AIF, single and a miner at Cootamundra, NSW. He had grown up in East Melbourne, however, with his parents, Matthew and Frances Lindsay, still iving at 30 Gipps St. 

45th Battalion Band, Belgium, January 1917, with Robert Lindsay
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LISSON, William Thomas

Date of birth: 
1899
Biographical notes: 

William Thomas Lisson first tried to enlist on 8 March, 1915. He would have been just over sixteen at the time, but claimed to be eighteen and to be working as a jeweller in Hobart, Tasmania. He was one of nine children born between 1878 and 1895  to Adam Claude Lisson and Caroline Gleeson Lisson, who lived at North Richmond, Tasmania.

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LITTLEJOHN, Euan Ironside

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Euan Ironside Littlejohn was born on 26 October 1892 in Nelson, New Zealand where his father William Still Littlejohn had been assistant master at Nelson College since his arrival from Scotland in 1881.

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