Leichhardt
Approximately 1418 members of the AIF listed Leichhardt as their suburb, this figure includes a handful of soldiers who returned to Australia during the war and re-enlisted. 160 Leichhardt soldiers are listed as having been killed in action, additionally 54 soldiers later died from wounds suffered in action, 12 soldiers died from disease, one soldier died in an accident, and one soldier died as a Prisoner of War, for a total of 228 dead.
Following the War, Leichhardt Council was given a gun that was seized by Victoria Cross recipient William Currey during the attack on Péronne in the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin. TThe War Trophy Distribution Scheme originally gave Currey’s gun to Willoughby Council but an arrange with Leichhardt Council was organised. The gun was placed outside Leichhardt Town Hall. It is not known what happened to the gun.
LEICHHARDT.-77 m.m. field gun, captured by the 20th Battnlion, A.I.F., during the advance near Framervllle, in France, early on the morning of August 11, 1918. The enemy attempt to remove the gun just as the fog lifted was checked by the battalion Lewis gunners promptly knocking out four of the six horse
WILLOUGHBY.-77 m.m. field gun, captured by the 53rd Battalion, A.I.F., during operations near Peronne, in France, on September 1, 1918.
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- Leichhardt: Abel to Barclay
- Leichhardt: Barker to Blake
- Leichhardt: Blake to Brown
- Leichhardt: Brown to Caplice
- Leichhardt: Carew to Clauson
- Leichhardt: Claxton to Cowing
- Leichhardt: Cox to Dawson
- Leichhardt: Day to Duignan
- Leichhardt: Dummer to Flatman
- Leichhardt: Flatman to Gibb
- Leichhardt: Gibb to Greenslade
- Leichhardt: Greenslade to Harkins
- Leichhardt: Harries to Hill
- Leichhardt: Hill to Hunter
- Leichhardt: Hush to Jones
- Leichhardt: Jones to Lang
- Leichhardt: Langdren to Love
- Leichhardt: Love to Martin
- Leichhardt: Martin to McMurdo
- Leichhardt: McMurdo to Morris
- Leichhardt: Morris to Norman
- Leichhardt: Norman to Parry
- Leichhardt: Parsons to Purtell
- Leichhardt: Quaye to Roberts
- Leichhardt: Roberts to Samuel
- Leichhardt: Samuels to Smale
- Leichhardt: Small to Stephen
- Leichhardt: Stephenson to Thearle
- Leichhardt: Thew to Wallis
- Leichhardt: Walsh to Williamson
- Leichhardt: Williams to Young