I recollect the first fight of the Four and it happened before we got to any battlefield.
It was when they wouldn't partake (because he'd dropped them in the mud) of a joint of meat and boiled onions which Steve pinched out of the officer's mess....
Old Peter Sorenson must have been absent when the group was taken. What a story one could write about that old section! — "Bunnie" Subiaco" - Western Mail 1931
Leo suffered a gun shot wound and never regained the full use of his left arm. He was always very careful not to expose his injury, even to close family members. However, one day a family member caught sight of it as he changed his singlet in the shearing shed. "It was terrible: a big hole in his back in the area of his shoulder blade".
Leo was one of the 10th Light Horsemen who formed a guard of honour for the Governor, Sir Francis Newdegate, when he opened the Gnowangerup Memorial Hall in 1923.
Leo was also member of the VDC in Gnowangerup during WWII.
Leo was involved with THE ECHO (a local to Gnowangerup paper) and was cast as 'Professor Saveloy Saukrenaut 'in the
"radio play" performed in July 1938.
Leo was often seen in his cart around the district with his kangaroo dogs and guns off to camp somewhere for a few days to shoot kangaroos.
Leo tended a garden he kept on his property along the Martinup Road near Charlie Denny's farm.
Leo enjoyed a beer (and more!), he could collapse in his cart after a session at the Broomehill Hotel and his horse would take him home without him putting a hand on the reigns.
One night the cart stopped and he woke up. There had been an accident and a car had crashed through a fence. Leo assisted the occupants of the vehicle saying "If you could have waited a minute or two there is an open gate up ahead!"