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Items relating to the death of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 8th Light Horse Regiment. This file contains a variety items detailing or relating to Maygar’s death on 1 November 1917 due to wounds sustained during the Battle of Beersheba in Palestine. This file contains:
Will of Leslie Cecil Maygar, last signed 25 June 1917;
Telegram from Major Frederick Thomas Henry Goucher to Reverend Warry, received 6 November 1917 [includes envelope];
Newspaper clipping titled "Heroic Horseman Dies", November 1917;
Letter from [Peter John Charles] Wallace to the brother of Leslie Cecil Maygar, 16th Light Horse, Benalla, 12 January 1918;
Telegram from Major J. M. Lean, Officer-in-Charge, Base Records, Melbourne, [incorrectly addressed] to Mrs. A. E. Maygar, Strathearn, Longwood, 18 March 1920;
Grave memorial card for Leslie Cecil Maygar (includes photograph of grave), [c. 1917-1918].
Letters relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 8th Light Horse Regiment. This file consists of letters written by Maygar as well as letters of condolence wr
Correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the First World War service and death of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar VC, DSO, MID. Comprises letters written from Egypt to his mother (16
Photographs relating to the Boer War and First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar. Maygar served with the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles during the Boer War and with the 4th and
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 8 Light Horse Regiment, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, 1915-1917. Collection consists of nine letters written by Lieutenant
Certificates of award relating to the First World War Service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 8th Light Horse Regiment. These certificates, printed in 1919 at the War Office in London, deta
Correspondence relating to the First World War Service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 4th and 8th Light Horse Regiments. In a 1915 letter to his mother written from Egypt, Maygar writes of
