Previous Experience – Harvey Rifle Club two and a half years
15/01/1915-To Depot Company as Private
16/02/1915-To 11th Battalion 4th Reinforcements
4/06/1915-Joined 11th Battalion in the field Gallipoli
27/06/1915-Admitted 1st Aust Casualty Clearing Station Gallipoli ( Enteritis )
28/06/1915-Evacuated/Admitted 24th Casualty Clearing Station Mudros Lemnos
9/07/1915-Evacuated/Admitted 1st Aust General Hospital Heliopolis Egypt
4/08/1915-To A & NZ Convalescent Hospital Helouan Egypt
17/09/1915-Rejoined Battalion in the field Gallipoli ex Hospital
7/01/1916-Disembarked Alexandria ex Lemnos ex Gallipoli
29/02/1916-Transferred 51st Battalion Serapeum Egypt
1/03/1916-Joined Battalion in the field Tel-el-Kebir Egypt
5/04/1916-promoted CORPORAL Serapeum Egypt
8/06/1916-Promoted SERGEANT in the field Egypt
12/06/1916-Disembarked Marseilles France ex Alexandria
15/08/1916-Reported MISSING IN ACTION France
15/08/1916-Reported KILLED IN ACTION Pozieres, France ( Court of Enquiry 23/04/1917 ).

Service Medals Awarded

1914/15 Star – No. 4941

British War Medal – No. 10784

Victory Medal – No. 10738

Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 323387

Memorial Inscriptions

Australian War Memorial Canberra – Panel No. 153

Harvey War Memorial, Western Australia.

Details of Soldier’s Death

Informant – 2180- HEPTON, J. J.  51st Battalion AIF – ” On August 15/16 Sergeant LEE was killed on the Somme by a shell.  Being a Wesleyan Lay Preacher LEE was well known and popular, and his death about which , there appeared no doubt, was regretted “. 
(HEPTON was not an eye witness, but was told  of LEE‘s death by one of the Sergeant’s Company).