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LEONARD, Alfred Jefferys
(Service number 10/1561)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Wales

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Kenilworth Hotel, Gisborne, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	J. leonard (father), Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	3rd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt (25 March 1915)

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington 2nd Battalion

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	14 August 1915	Age	28
Place of Death	At sea of Gallipoli
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece
Memorial Reference	II. E. 72
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Albert Leonard was the son of the late John and Catherine Leonard, of, "Glencoe House" Crickhowell, Breconhire, Wales

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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