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Name recorded

• Leslie Ernest Balzen

Service number

• Service number 10236

Ranks

• Held rank of Gunner
• Held rank of Driver

Birth records

• Born in Croydon, QLD, Australia
• 6 December 1894 in Croydon, QLD, Australia

Death record

• 19 August 1943 in Sydney, NSW, Australia

Life events

• Enlisted at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Embarked from Sydney on the HMAT Berrima

Addresses

• 85 Holt Avenue, Mosman, NSW, Australia
• Ewell, 85 Holt Avenue, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - Balzen, William
• Father - William Balzen
• Mother - Ellen Sheehy
• Wife - Ethel Annie Dryden

Organisations

• 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
• 5th Field Artillery Brigade

Main sources

• Balzen Leslie Ernest : SERN 10236 : POB Croydon QLD : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Balzen William (item)
• Discovering Anzacs - Leslie Ernest Balzen (webpage)
• First World War Embarkation Roll - Leslie Ernest Balzen (webpage)
• 431st CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. INJURED. (newspaper article)
• NEW SOUTH WALES. AT CAIRO. (newspaper article)
• Death Notice (newspaper article)
• Balzen Leslie Ernest : SERN 10236 : POB Croydon QLD : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Balzen William (webpage)

Commemorations

• BALZEN L. E. on the South Face of the Mosman War Memorial
• BALZEN LE. on the Mosman Football Club (Rugby Union) Roll of Honour