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ASHWELL, Leslie
(Service number 7/691)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- Ashwell, Temuka
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Joseph Ashwell (father), Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	14 December 1914
Transport	Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
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Discharge

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Death

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Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

A copy of a diary covering the voyage of Joseph Ashwell, father of Leslie, Sidney, and Roland, includes a note by his granddaughter Irene (daughter of Florence Ellen). The note comments that these three sons all served in World War One. Leslie, it notes, returned to New Zealand with terrible back wounds, while Sidney died of wounds on the battlefield one a few weeks before the Armistice. She thought Roland however returned home to New Zealand unharmed.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (August 2014); SCRoll submission by S SInclair

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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