Leslie Sydney Bedford

Service number: 5252

Rank: Driver

Unit: 1 Brigade Australian Field Artillery

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 31 October 1916

Cause of death: Killed in action

Cemetery or memorial details: Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France

War Grave Register notes:

BEDFORD, Dvr. Leslie Sydney, 5252. 1st Bde. Aust. Field Artillery. Killed in action 31st October 1916. Age 22. Son of Mabel Marian Davis Bedford, of Arrandoon, Camera St., Manly, New South Wales and the late Leslie John Bedford. Native of Enmore, Sydney, New South Wales. III. K. 5.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Leslie Bedford was born in 1893 at Enmore, Sydney. He enlisted on 9 June 1915 and embarked from Melbourne. He served at Gallipoli and Tunisia as a driver with the Field Artillery, then was posted to France, arriving on 27 March 1916. He was killed in action on the Somme on 31 October 1916.