In Memory Of

HORSFALL, LEONARD ARTHUR

Service Details
Age:
 43
Date of Birth:
 1874-07-20
Service No:
 1057
Rank:
 Gunner
Unit:
 71st Siege Bty.
Regiment:
 South African Heavy Artillery
Date of Death:
 1917-07-23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Croisilles, he was serving ammunition at the gun, when a shell burst a few yards away, and a splinter killed him instantly
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 I. E. 1.
Cemetery:
 CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Brother of E. R. Horsfall, of Station Colliery, Witbank, Transvaal. Born at Melbourne, Australia. 20th July 1874. Enrolled Melbourne Law School 1890. Cambridge-Street State School, Collingwood, of which his father was Headmaster; Scotch College; Ormond College; BA, LL.B. Melbourne; LL.B. Cape University; maiden fours 1894. After admission to Victorian bar, went to South Africa during Boer War and became Crown Prosecutor, and ultimately a Resident Magistrate on the Rand. Was given leave to enlist in August 1916, and joined 71st Siege Battery South African Heavy Artillery as Gunner; promoted Corporal; to France 1 January 1917; evacuated to hospital 14 June 1917; rejoined battery 9 July 1917. Commemoration stone in Florida Cemetery, Gauteng see http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=6AC6C9D0-5555-11E2-BC960050568D0140