LEVENS, John
(Service number 74950)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 17 September 1884 | Place of Birth | Temuka |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 20 November 1917 | Age | |
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| Address at Enlistment | 40 Stafford Street, Feilding | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Widower; then remarried | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs F. LEVENS (wife), c/o Sub Inspector McKinnon, Church Street, Palmerston North | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 40th Reinforcements, C Company | ||
| Date | 10 July 1918 | ||
| Transport | Tahiti | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Plymouth, Devon, England | |
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 19 February 1971 | Age | 86 years |
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| Place of Death | Oakley Hospital, Point Chevalier | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Waikumete Crematorium, Auckland (ashes scattered) | ||
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Biographical Notes
John Levens was the second son of George Joseph and Annie (née Walker) Levens. He was educated at Temuka School. In 1913 he married Grace Myrtle Montgomery. Grace had died by 1917 and in 1918 he married Flora MacKinnon His eldest brother, George William Levens, was killed in action in 1916 in France.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 July 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 July 2017]; Waikumete Crematorium record (South Canterbury Branch cemetery records) [10 July 2017]
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