Early Life
Lee Batchelor was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1865 and after the early death of his photographer father he and his two brothers were raised by his mother. He was educated at the North Adelaide Model School and worked there as a pupil-teacher when he was 12. He also worked at the North Adelaide Church of Christ secondary school, but became an apprentice engine-fitter in the government engineering plant in the Adelaide suburb of Islington at 17.
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