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Ethel Kate Lettman was born in Queensland on 18 April 1890.^1,2

She married Richard Tinck in Queensland on 31 July 1910.^3,4

Ethel died on 4 January 1935 in Queensland at age 44.⁵ She was buried on 5 January 1935 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.⁶

Florence Lettman was born in Queensland on 2 March 1885.^1,2

She married George H Armstrong in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1920.³

Florence Maud Lettman was born in Queensland on 5 July 1906.¹

She married Clive Michael Dwyer in Queensland on 26 July 1924.^2,3

Frank Lettman was born in Queensland on 22 January 1898. No father's name is given on the birth entry, and his mother's husband had died five years previously.¹

He enlisted in the 25 Infantry Battalion (7th Reinforcement) as a Private (#3133). on 11 September 1915 at Brisbane, Queensland. He gave his sister Kate as his next-of-kin and added a year to his age, claiming to be 18 and 8 months. He embarked on the 30 December on the HMAT Itonus (formerly the British India Co ship Anglia, which was later sunk off Malta in December 1916). The 25th Battalion had left Gallipoli on the 18 December 1915 for Egypt before proceeding to France and adding the reinforcements. Landing on 19 March 1916, it was the first AIF battalion to arrive there; Frank disembarked in Marseilles on the 27th March before joining the battalion in Armientiers on the 23rd of April. Now fighting as part of the 2nd Division, it took part in its first major battle at Pozières between 25 July and 7 August, in the course of which it suffered 785 casualties.^2,3

He was declared missing on the 25th, and a commission established his death on 29 July 1916 in Longueval, Somme, at age 18.^4,5,3 He was buried at the Delville Wood Cemetery in Longueval.⁶

George Edward Lettman was born in Queensland on 27 November 1881.^1,2

George died on 18 June 1926 in Queensland at age 44.^3,4 He was buried on 19 June 1926 at the Balmoral/Bulimba Cemetery, 441 Wynnum Rd in Morningside.⁵

John Henry Lettman was born in Queensland on 3 July 1904.¹

He married Edie Annie Butler in Queensland on 13 November 1929.²

Sidney Stanley Lettman was born in Queensland on 17 September 1902. No father's name is given on the birth entry.¹

He married Ethel Grace McLean in Queensland on 14 March 1927.^2,3

Sidney died on 14 April 1974 in Queensland at age 71.⁴ He was buried at the Yandina General Cemetery, Cordwell Rd in Yandina.⁵

William George Lettman was born in Queensland on 1 July 1909.¹

William Henry Lettman was born in England circa 1850.¹

He married Elizabeth Emily Robinson, daughter of William Alfred Robinson and Ellen Baker, in Queensland on 27 January 1877.^2,3

William died on 30 December 1892 in Brisbane, Queensland.^4,5 He was buried on 1 January 1893 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.⁶

William Henry Lettman was born in Queensland on 25 August 1877.^1,2

He married Fanny Mitchell in Queensland on 21 May 1902.^3,4

William died on 23 August 1921 in Queensland at age 43.^5,6