Service Number: 8507
Enlisted: 16 September 1915
Rank: Private
Unit Name: 1st Australian General Hospital
Fate: Returned to Australia on 5 July 1919
AIF Project
Married Margaret Jane Connor In 1921, Brisbane
Suggested edit: LATE MR. L. R. BAYARD Mr. Leslie Robert Bayard, a director of Bayards Pty. Ltd., who passed away at the week-end, was born at Roma 47 years ago. He went t school at Roma and after wards to the Junction Park State school, when his father, the late Mr. G. A. Bayard, brought his business from Roma and established it at Melbourne Street, South Brisbane. Mr. Leslie Bayard joined the business upon leaving school and was associated with it actively up till about a year ago, when failing health overtook him, excepting for four years spent with the First Field Ambulance in the last war. After the death of Mr. Bayard, Sen., the four brothers carried on the busi ness, which they successfully trans ferred to Queen Street. In that trans fer and subsequent consolidation work the late Mr. L. R. Bayard played an important part. He took a keen Interest in the welfare of the returned men of the A.I.F. and was particularly active In the Yeronga sub-branch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. He found recreation in motoring, golf and gardening. Mrs. Bayard, who was Miss Margaret O'Connor, survives her husband, and there is a son, Jack Owen Bayard.
LATE MR. L. R. BAYARD (1940, September 16). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 5 (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS). Retrieved May 15, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184523051
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Service Number: 8507
Enlisted: 16 September 1915
Rank: Private
Unit Name: 1st Australian General Hospital
Fate: Returned to Australia on 5 July 1919
AIF Project
Married Margaret Jane Connor In 1921, Brisbane
Suggested edit: LATE MR. L. R. BAYARD Mr. Leslie Robert Bayard, a director of Bayards Pty. Ltd., who passed away at the week-end, was born at Roma 47 years ago. He went t school at Roma and after wards to the Junction Park State school, when his father, the late Mr. G. A. Bayard, brought his business from Roma and established it at Melbourne Street, South Brisbane. Mr. Leslie Bayard joined the business upon leaving school and was associated with it actively up till about a year ago, when failing health overtook him, excepting for four years spent with the First Field Ambulance in the last war. After the death of Mr. Bayard, Sen., the four brothers carried on the busi ness, which they successfully trans ferred to Queen Street. In that trans fer and subsequent consolidation work the late Mr. L. R. Bayard played an important part. He took a keen Interest in the welfare of the returned men of the A.I.F. and was particularly active In the Yeronga sub-branch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. He found recreation in motoring, golf and gardening. Mrs. Bayard, who was Miss Margaret O'Connor, survives her husband, and there is a son, Jack Owen Bayard.
LATE MR. L. R. BAYARD (1940, September 16). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 5 (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS). Retrieved May 15, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184523051
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Leslie Robert Bayard (Late A.I.F.)
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14th Sept 1940
46 Years
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