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GRIFFITHS, Leonard Stuart
(Service number 6/2641)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18/12/1894	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	17 April 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Hassall St, Timaru
Occupation	Journalist, Timaru Herald
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	R.S. Griffiths (Father), Hassall St, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 August 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16. Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916-18, Balkans (Gallipoli) &, Mudros (Lemnos) 1915
Service Medals
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	18 November 1936	Age	41
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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