Brigadier General Raymond Lionel Leane, CB, CMG, DSO, MC, VD

Date of birth	1878-07-12	Prospect, SA.
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1905	Commissioned as a lieutenant in the 11th (Perth Rifles) Infantry.
Other units	1908	Transferred to the Goldfields Infantry Regiment in Kalgoolie.
Date promoted	1910-11-21	Appointed captain.
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1914-08-25	Joined the AIF.
Other	1914-08-25	Posted as a Company Commander in the 11th Infantry Battalion with the rank of captain.
Other units	1915-01-01	Officer commanding C Company.
Date promoted	1915-02-26	Promoted to substantive rank of major and appointed commander of the newly formed the 48th Infantry Battalion.
Other	1915-04-25	One of the first men ashore at Anzac Cove.
Date wounded	1915-06-28	Wounded in the attack on Bolton's Ridge.
Date wounded	1915-07-31	Wounded in the head when an enemy shell struck him following the successful attack on and enemy position that became known as Leane's Trench.
Date promoted	1915-08-05	Promoted to temporary major.
Other units	1915-09-11	Commanded the 11th Battaion.
Date promoted	1915-10-08	Promoted to major.
Date promoted	1915-10-08 - 1915-11-30	Promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel.
Date of honour or award	1916-01-14	Awarded the Military Cross for his leadership, courage and coolness under fire during his attempt to capture Gaba Tepe the previous year.
Other units	1916-02-09	Officer commanding C Company.
Other units	1916-02-21	Temporary Commanding Officer of the 48th Battalion.
Date promoted	1916-02-26	Promoted to the substantive rank of major.
Date promoted	1916-03-12	Promoted to substantive lieutenant colonel.
Other units	1916-03-12	Appointed Commanding Officer of the 48th Battalion.
Date of honour or award	1916-06-03	Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
Date wounded	1917-10-12	Wounded at Passchendaele and evacuated.
Date of honour or award	1917-12-17	Bar to the Distinguished Service Order.
Other	1918-01	Returned to duty and his battalion.
Date of honour or award	1918-01-01	Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).
Date promoted	1918-04-19	Acting Brigade Commander with the temporary rank of colonel.
Other	1918-04-19	Temporary commanding officer of the 12th Brigade.
Other units	1918-05-22	Returned as commanding officer of the 48th Battalion.
Date promoted	1918-06-01	Promoted to sustantive rank of colonel and temporary brigadier general.
Other	1918-06-01	Temporary Commanding Officer of the 12th Brigade.
Other	1918-11-24 - 1919-03-25	General Officer Commanding the 12th Brigade Headquarters.
Date of honour or award	1919-01-07	French Croix de Guerre.
Other	1919-04-08 - 1919-07-16	General Officer Commanding No. 4 Group Hurdcott.
Date of honour or award	1919-06-03	Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
Date returned to Australia	1919-09-06
Other	1920-01-03	AIF appointment terminated.
Other	1920-05	Became Chief Commissioner of Police in South Australia.
Other	1921 - 1926	He was placed on the unattached list and commanded the 3rd Infantry Brigade in Adelaide.
Other	1938	Moved to the retired list of officers.
Other	1944	Retired from the police force.
Date of honour or award	1945-06-14	Appointed Knight Bachelor.
Date of death	1962-01-25	Adelaide, SA.