Whitbread, Lionel Stephen

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C. de G., B.A. : Private, 4th Machine Gun Battn., A.I.F., France and Germany. Enlisting in August, 1916, and sailing 23rd December with 12th Reinforcements 13th Battn., joined M.G. coy. in June, 1917, and served at Bois Grenier, Pozieres, Ypres, Mouquet Farm, and Bapaume as machine-gunner, scout, and range finder. On n th April was captured by the enemy during Australian attack on Bullecourt and Rennecourt and spent eight months in working camp in Occupied Territory , ten months in camps at Schneidemuhl (Posen) and Altdamm (Pomerania) and nine on a German farm at Schelzingen (Posen), returning via Danzig and England 25th April, 1919. Member of Teachers' College.

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1885

Birth in Taree -- NSW, Australia 1885
1915

Military service as Private at France --, France ; Germany --, Germany 1915
1915

Teacher at Balgownie -- NSW, Australia 1915
1916

Enlisted 1 Aug 1916
1919

Teacher.First Assistant Teacher at Corowa -- NSW, Australia 1919
1926

Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia 1926
1934

Headmaster at Gunnedah -- NSW, Australia 1934
1938

Headmaster at Wentworth -- NSW, Australia 1938
1949

Retired from teaching 1949 at Gunnedah [ NSW Australia ]
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Military award: C.de G. on
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Teacher at Blayney -- NSW, Australia
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Teacher at Crookwell -- NSW, Australia
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Teacher at Rose Bay -- NSW, Australia
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Headmaster at Coonamble -- NSW, Australia

Gender

Male

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