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Born: 1 January 1898
Parents Arthur and Emily lived at 1 Wudgong Street, Mosman.
Enlisted 27 August 1915, aged 17 years and 5 months.
Transferred to 54th Battalion, 20 April 1916.
Wounded in action, Fromelles, 19 or 20 July 1916, 'GSW [gunshot wound] left knee severe'. Admitted to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, then by ambulance train to 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, then to England.
Rejoined unit 21 July 1917.
Married Marie Ghislaine 'Germaine' Lamendin, daughter of Jules Ghislain Lamendin and Jeanne Coppin, of Leval-Chaudeville, Beaumont, Belgium, at the town hall of that village, 14 May 1919.
Settled in Belgium after the First World War. Had two sons (Ghislain Price 1926-2009 and ?). Wife died in 1930. Price and his sons fought with the resistance during the Second World War before Leslie escaped to England through France and Spain.
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- Pte. L. Price (photograph)
- PRICE Leslie : Service Number - 4866 : Place of Birth - Sydney NSW : Place of Enlistment - Warwick Farm NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) PRICE Arthur (item)
- Discovering Anzacs - Leslie Price (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls - Leslie Price (webpage)
- Ex-Digger Tells Story Of Escape From Belgium (newspaper article)
- Geraldine Walsh on "Pte L. Price" photo on Flickr (webpage)
- Australian Waged Sabotage War (newspaper article)
- SABOTAGE IN BELGIUM Exploits of an Australian (newspaper article)
- Commemorations
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- PRICE L. on the North Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Price, L. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour