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HIGHT, Leslie George Athol
(Service number 82058)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31 January 1893	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Pleasant Point
Occupation	Baker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M. HIGHT (mother), 40 High Street, Timaru
Religion	Congregational
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

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Death

Date	28 March 1945	Age	52 years
Place of Death	Public Hospital, Timaru
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 48, Plot 240
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leslie George Athol Hight was the son of albert and Mary Gertrude (née Dixon) Hight. Two brothers - Leonard Dixon Hight and Cecil Morland High who had enlisted together, were both killed in action on 12 October 1917 at Passchendaele.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 September 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [16 September 2017); Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [17 September 2017]

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