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TWOMEY, Brian Leo
(Service number 34977)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	24/03/1894	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Bank clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	J. W. TWOMEY (father), High Street, Temuka, South Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	21st Reinforcements Specialist Company, Signal Section
Date	19 January 1917
Transport	Ulimaroa or Waitemata
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

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

Bank officer

Death

Date	22 March 1975	Age	80 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth
Memorial Reference	Soldiers Section, Block E, Plot 241
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Brian Leo TWOMEY was the son of Jeremiah Matthew and Teresa Mary (nee HUGHES) TWOMEY. In 1923 he married Hilda Myra KEMBLE. His brother Francis Hugh TWOMEY was killed in action in 1917 in the Palestine. Another brother, Ernest Matthew TWOMEY, also served in WWI.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [20 January 2015]; Te Henui Cemetery Records (New Plymouth District Council) [21 January 2015], Te Henui headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG Cemetery Records fiches & ancestry.com.au) [21 January 2015]

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