Awards & Winners

Leslie Maygar

Date of Birth 27-May-1868
Place of Birth Kilmore
(Australia, Victoria)
Nationality Australia
Profession Soldier
Leslie Cecil Maygar VC, DSO, VD was an 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 forces, for service in the Second Boer War. He later served at Gallipoli during the First World War, and died of wounds received at the Battle of Beersheba during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

Awards by Leslie Maygar

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1901


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23 November 1901 as a Lieutenant in the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Australian Forces during the Second Boer War.)