Name
Leonard Frederick Bysh
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
897
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
44th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
A native of old Bushey, Herts Leonard Bysh was born in about 1887. He was the oldest of three children of James and Amelia Bysh and the family made their home in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
Leonard emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a labourer in Subiaco, near Perth. His parents also emigrated and lived at ‘Broxbourne’, Shaftesbury Road, Burwood, New South Wales.
Wartime Service
Leonard enlisted as Private 897 with the 44th Battalion of the Australian Infantry on the 17 January 1916 and embarked with the Machine Gun Section from Fremantle on HMAT Suevic on 6 June 1916. He was later promoted to Sergeant and was killed in action in Belgium on 4 October 1917. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
His brother-in-law, 3012 Driver Walter Gordon Bone, died of illness on 28 October 1918.
The image shown in the Soldier Portrait is taken at his sister, Gertrude Amelia Dover's house at "Ivanhoe", Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and includes from left to right, Irene Amelia Dover, Leonard Bysh and Edwin Thomas Dover.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, www.awm.gov.au
