LEONARD, Thomas
(Service number 7/2280)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 23/10/1885 | Place of Birth | Kerrytown |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 15 November 1915 | Age | 30 |
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| Address at Enlistment | Stone Stables, Stafford St, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Livery Stable proprietor | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | T Leonard (father) Ngatea, Thames, Auckland New Zealand | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | NZ Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 10th Reinforcements Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron | ||
| Date | 4 March 1916 | ||
| Transport | Willochra or Tofua | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington, New Zealand | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
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Military Awards
| Campaigns | Egypt, France | ||
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| Service Medals | British War, Victory | ||
Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 15 June 1958 | Age | 72 |
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| Place of Death | Timaru | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Temuka Cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | St Patrick's (Waimate) Memorial list (June 2015) | ||
Biographical Notes
Son of Thomas and Hannah Leonard (nee Brosnahan). Thomas's siblings included, Maurice (b.1881), Joseph (b.1882), and Timothy (b.1884). Thomas's mother Hannah Leonard died in 1887 and there was some dispute over the sale of land (in Kerrytown) belonging to her after her death. Thomas (senior) then married Emily Godwin in 1888 who had beennoted as working for Thomas (senior) and had been arrested for attempted suicide in 1887.
After Thomas (junior) was wounded during the war, he was sent to Ireland to recover where he may have married Mary Ellen Josephine O'Reilly - she was shown as his next-of-kin, living in Limerick. She returned to New Zealand with Thomas and is buried in the same plot in Temuka after she died in 1955. Their two children, Maurice John Gabiel and Johanna Macy (married Mee), were her executors. Thomas owned and farmed land in Waimate
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (May 2015); Archives New Zealand; New Zealand BDM Historical Records online; Billion Graves at http://billiongraves.com/; Paperspast; ancestry.co.au
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