Participant Info

Surname

Lester

First Name

Jack

Initial

Service Number

5360

Rank

private

Unit Served

19th Battalion

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

February 5

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

August 22

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 43, image page 44

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

May Josephine Wade

Parental Address

77 Renwick Street, Leichhardt (sister)

Parental City

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Leichhardt, June 6, 1888, educated Sacred Heart, Darlinghurst, piano maker, enlisted 1915, embarked August 22, 1916. War service: France (wounded Bullecourt, May 1917), invalided to Birmingham War Hospital, twice gassed in 1918. (This veteran was