NAME Sheppard Lee Edmonds
BORN 1 January 1887
DIED ?
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 217
UNIT 1st ALH
ENLISTED Sydney September 1914
DISCHARGED Sydney 16 September 1916 – Medically unfit wounded at Gallipoli – sent home as a convalescent.

Sheppard Lee Edmonds applied for an advance on 24 January 1920.[1] The advance was approved on 30 April 1920.[2] His property was to be used solely for grazing purposes. It consisted of 4053 acres in the County of Bunarba, Parish of Numby Numby, Land District of Moree and was a Crown Lease No.18/3.[3] His holding was big enough to be a home maintenance area.[4]

The block was recognised as being a difficult holding due to the extremes of flood and drought. Despite this Edmonds made a final payment of Interest and principle by 6 May 1924.[5]

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/6902 No. 3050], Application for an Advance 29 April 1920.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid, Application for Loan nd.

[4] Ibid, Secretary, Department of Repatriation to the Director Returned Soldiers Settlement Branch 24 April 1920.

[5] Ibid, Lease Branch Report 6 May 1924.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/6902 No. 3050] Shepherd Lee Edmonds.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Shepherd Lee Edmonds) online: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3535294&I=1&SE=1.