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CONNOR, Leonard Smith
(Service number 8/174)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	04/06/1888	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Roxburgh, NZ
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Charles Connor(father) Standfield St, Mornington, Dunedin
Religion	Not recorded
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	NMNZT 5, 9 Ruapehu, Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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	28 Sept 1916	Age	24
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	KIA
Notices	10/16/1916
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

son of late Charles and Agnes Connor, Native of Mornington, Dunedin. next of king Brother Daniel C Connor, c/- Kurow Hotel. Daniel also served, Serial No 27463

Sources

War record open in Archives

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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