Military History

Embarked Fremantle per ‘Clan MacCorquodale’ for Egypt 13.2.1917.
Roll Rank Trooper/Private.
Roll Unit 10th Light Horse Regiment, 24th Reinforcements.
Lefroy disembarked at Suez and marched in to Details Camp at Moascar 12.3.1917. He transferred to the 10th Light Horse 22.4.1917. Lefroy was taken on strength 24.4.1917 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF). He was transferred to the Desert Mounted Corps Rest Camp 2.2.1918 and returned to his Regiment 22.4.1918. Lefroy was transferred to the 3rd Battalion Headquarters at Zagazig 9.6.1919. He marched in to Moascar 1.7.1919 and was listed for return to Australia.
Embarked Kantara per ‘Oxfordshire’ for return to Australia 18.7.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 4.8.1919.
Discharged 11.9.1919.
Final Rank Trooper/ Private 10th Light Horse.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Lefroy was the son of Henry Gerald and  Emily (nee Paley) Lefroy. He was one of fourteen children. His brother Jeffery Lefroy also served in WW1 (SN 29541)
Photos  Tenth Light Horse awaiting embarkation at Fremantle wharf. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H02008
               Light Horsemen of the Australian Mounted Division riding through Damascus 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM J0096
               Zagazig, 10th Light Horse armoured boat used in 1919 uprisings. Photograph donor Major L.C. Timperley, photograph source AWM J02485
               HS 'Oxfordshire'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM 04714.005
           

Information Source
AWM H02008. Tenth Light Horse awaiting embarkation at Fremantle wharf. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM J0096. Light Horsemen of the Australian Mounted Division riding through Damascus 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of th Australian War Memorial
AWM J02485. Zagazig, 10th Light Horse armoured boat used in 1919 uprisings. Photograph donor Major L.C. Timperley, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM 04714.005. HS 'Oxfordshire'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Ernest Henry Lefroy
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455, Lefroy Ernest Henry


Carnarvon. WA.

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