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CHEYNE, Lennox Nichol
(Service number 6/427)

William HOCKING (standing), Lennox CHEYNE (centre), Joseph Wallace (right) — 6/478 Private William Moyse Hocking (standing), 6/427 Private Lennox Nichol Cheyne cleaning his rifle (killed in action 25 April 1915, Gallipoli) and 6/568 Sergeant Joseph Henry Wallace (killed in action Gallipoli 7 August 1915), all of the 2nd (South Canterbury) Company at Zeitoun Camp, 1915.

From the photograph album of 6/538 Private Hector Hobson Saunderson, 2nd (South) Canterbury Infantry Battalion. (Kippenberger Military Archive, National Army Museum Te Mata Toa, Waiouru 1993.1284)

CHEYNE headstone - Anderson Bay Dunedin — (Courtesy of Dunedin City Council )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	07/06/1892	Place of Birth	Bullendall, Central Otago

Enlistment Information

Date	14 August 1914	Age	22
Address at Enlistment	C/- Mr Jenkins, Church St, Timaru
Occupation	Motor Mechanic (for Mr Moore, Timaru)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Jane Cheyne (mother), C/- A. Pringle, Ashburton
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 April 1915	Age	23
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	Otago Daily Times, Issue 16602, 27 January 1916, Page 5
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	74
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru, Name listed on mother's grave Anderson's Bay Cemetery.

Biographical Notes

Son of Andrew Leslie (d.1909) and Jane Cheyne nee McShannon.

Lennox was one of nine children, including Gordon Cheyne (1894-1916, died at the Somme). Another brother, Phoenix Evans (Jim) died in Dunedin in 1914. All three boys are noted in Paperspast for speeding tickets. Lennox attended Dunedin Technical classes in 1908, listing occupation as plumber and was a paying student.

At enlistment he was working as a motor mechanic for a “Mr Moore” of Timaru. Lennox was killed during the Gallipolli landing but his body was never found. A court of enquiry reported him missing before confirming his death in January 1916.

Sources

Cenotaph Jan 2014; Paperspast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ ; Births, Deaths & Marriages online www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz; Dunedin City Council Cemetery search, www.dunedin.govt.nz

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald; Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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