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Alice Frances Lettman was born in Queensland on 29 April 1887.^1,2

She married George Cheyne in Queensland on 29 June 1908.^3,4

Alice died on 20 February 1915 in Queensland at age 27.⁵ She was buried on 21 February 1915 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.⁶

Charles Alfred Lettman was born in Queensland on 23 December 1879.^1,2

Charles died on 21 September 1880 in Queensland.³ He was buried on 22 September 1880 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.⁴

Dorothy died on 7 September 1906 in Queensland.^1,2 She was buried on 8 September 1906 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.³

Elizabeth Emily Lettman was born in Queensland on 3 October 1893.^1,2

She married Francis Louie Huch in Queensland on 3 February 1915.^3,4

Elsie Lettman was born in Queensland on 12 December 1911.¹

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