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JORDAN, Leslie Ray
(Service number 26003)

Talisman Leslie R Jordan - obverse — A keepsake collected by Jordan during his World War I experience and later.

Leslie served in the Auckland Infantry Regiment during World War I. He later worked as a bank manager in Timaru (South Canterbury Museum )

Talisman Leslie R Jordan - verso — A keepsake collected by Jordan during his World War I experience and later.

Leslie served in the Auckland Infantry Regiment during World War I. He later worked as a bank manager in Timaru (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Second Lieutenant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Clerk, BNZ Auckland
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Leslie Ray Jordan (wife), care of T. Holden, Lake House, Hamilton
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	19th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company
Date	15 November 1916
Transport	HMNZT 68 Tahiti or HMNZT Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leslie served in the Auckland Infantry Regiment during World War I. His address at time of enlistment was Fiji where he was a clerk for BNZ Auckland.

He later worked as a bank manager in Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 August 2018];

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum

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