Editing Leonard Keysor (section)

{{Short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Leonard Keysor
|image= Leonard Keysor portrait.jpg
|caption= Lieutenant Leonard Keysor c. 1917
|birth_date= 3 November 1885
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1951|10|12|1885|11|3|df=yes}}
|birth_place= [[Maida Vale]], London, England
|death_place= [[Paddington, London]], England<ref name=grave>{{cite web|url=http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/golders.htm |title=Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross — Golders Green Crematorium, North West London |access-date=2009-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623050143/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/golders.htm |archive-date=2009-06-23 }}</ref>
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|allegiance= Australia
|branch= [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]]
|serviceyears= 1914–18
|rank= [[Lieutenant]]
|unit= [[1st Battalion (Australia)|1st Battalion]]<br />[[42nd Battalion (Australia)|42nd Battalion]]
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* [[First World War]]
** [[Gallipoli Campaign]]
*** [[Battle of Lone Pine]]
** [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]
*** [[Battle of the Somme]]
*** [[Battle of Pozières]]
*** [[Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux]]
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|awards= [[Victoria Cross]]
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'''Leonard Maurice Keysor''', [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (also known as "Keyzor" or "Kyezor") (3 November 1885 – 12 October 1951) was a British-born [[List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients|Australian recipient]] of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces. Born in England, Keysor emigrated to Australia shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. He enlisted in the [[First Australian Imperial Force]] in August 1914 and served in Egypt before landing at [[Gallipoli]], Turkey at the beginning of the campaign. On 7 August 1915 at [[Battle of Lone Pine|Lone Pine]], while serving as an acting lance-corporal, 29-year-old Keysor performed an act of bravery for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Later in the war he took part in the fighting in France, serving in the trenches along the Western Front. He would later achieve the rank of lieutenant before being discharged from the army on medical grounds at the end of the war.

Keysor remained in Australia until early 1919 working as a clerk in [[Sydney]], New South Wales before returning to England where he began a career in business. On the outbreak of the Second World War he attempted to rejoin the military but was deemed medically unfit and was rejected. He died in 1951 suffering from [[cancer]].