Laurance Edward Hendy

Service number: 6851

Rank: Private

Unit: 2nd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Laurance Hendy was born at South Yarra, Melbourne in 1894. He was a letter carrier and bandsman. He enlisted on 16 June 1916, giving his next of kin as his wife Amy of 17 Sydney Road, Manly.

He embarked on the Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916.

He was wounded in the arm in France on 21 October 1917. In March 1918 he contracted VD. He was hospitalised in August 1918 with impetigo.

He returned to Australia on the Aeneas on 3 May 1919.