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KELLY, Leonora Flight
(Service number 22/336)

Aliases	Nora
First Rank	Nurse	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Nurse
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M. WATSON (sister), Bank of New South Wales, Bull's
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	(1) New Zealand Hospital Ship No 1, Maheno (Second Charter) New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps Ship's Staff; (2) New Zealand Hospital Ship No 1, Maheno (Third departure from New Zealand) New Zealand Army Nursing Service
Date	(1) 25 January 1916; (2) 6 May 1916
Transport	Maheno
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Sea

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	22 August 1949	Age	79 yrs
Place of Death	27 Hamblyn Street, Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Taranaki
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leonora Flight KELLY (Nora) was the daughter of John and Anne (nee FLIGHT) KELLY. She nursed at Timaru Hospital. Post-war she was matron of Patea Hospital.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [10 August 2014]

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