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LAURENSON, Lawrence Leslie
(Service number 26748)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	23 August 1896	Place of Birth	Pleasant Point

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Pleasant Point
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Laurence LAURENSON (father), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury
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	19th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	15 November 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

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Prisoner of War Information

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Death

Date	29 March 1925	Age	29 years
Place of Death	Temuka
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 94, Plot 433
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Lawrence Leslie Laurenson was born on 23 August 1896 at Pleasant Point, the son of Laurence and Mary Ann (née Kee) Laurenson. He married Dorothy May Burns on 6 April 1921 at St Peter's church, Temuka.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017]; Temuka Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [13 January 2017]

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