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LEONARD, Alfred Jefferys
(Service number 10/1561)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth Wales

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Kenilworth Hotel, Gisborne, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin J. leonard (father), Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date 14 February 1915
Transport Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt (25 March 1915)
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Wellington 2nd Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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 14 August 1915 Age 28
Place of Death At sea of Gallipoli
Cause Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece
Memorial Reference II. E. 72
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Albert Leonard was the son of the late John and Catherine Leonard, of, "Glencoe House" Crickhowell, Breconhire, Wales

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

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Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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