Fragments of the First AIF - Sgt Leslie Harry Geeves

Tasmanian Leslie Harry Geeves of Geeveston, veteran of the Boer War, was the bearer of experience from one war to the next; a true Briton, a patriot and loyal to the last.

Episode 17: Sgt Lesle Harry Geeves, 12th Battalion

Sources:

• 'James H Geeves,’ Huon Times, 7 June 1929, p.5.

• ‘Mrs James H Geeves,’ Huon Times, 7 June 1929, p.5.

• ‘Personal,’ Huon Times, 22 November 1911, p.2.

• ‘Imperial Australian Bushmen: Tasmanian Contingent,’ Examiner, 5 May 1900, p.1.

• ‘Huonville,’ The Mercury, 21 April 1900, p.4.

• ‘Geeveston,’ The Mercury, 23 May 1900, p.4.

• ‘The Transvaal War,’ The Mercury, 30 July 1900, p.3.

• ‘Arrival of the Harlech Castle at Albany,’ The Mercury, 26 November 1900, p2.

• ‘Transvaal,’ The Mercury, 5 February 1901, p.3.

• ‘Boer Conference,’ The Mercury, 14 March 1901, p.3.

• Mafeking newspaper headline: The Argus, 21 May 1900, p.6.

• ‘A Tasmanian at the Front,’ The Mercury, 8 May 1901, p.2.

• ‘The Transvaal,’ The Mercury, 4 June 1901, p.2.

• Leslie Harry Geeves 1/1909: Documents in Cases in Bankruptcy, Libraries Tasmania

• ‘Good Templary,’ Tasmanian News, 12 June 1905, p.2.

• ‘Letter from the Front,’ Huon Times, 29 October 1915, p.3. 

• Commonwealth War Graves information

• Service Record