HE GAVE HIS YOUTH
THAT THE WORLD
MIGHT GROW OLD IN PEACE

SERGEANT LEONARD TUNBRIDGE

AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

29TH AUGUST 1916 AGE 19

BURIED: ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, FRANCE


Nineteen-year-old Sergeant Leonard Tunbridge died of wounds at 4 pm on 29 August 1916, having been admitted to the Casualty Clearing Station with a gun shot wound in his abdomen at 10 pm the previous night. Born in England, he and his parents had emigrated to Australia in 1912.