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SMITH, Leonard Gordon
(Service number N/N)

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Birth

Date 28/03/1888 Place of Birth New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Hadlow Road, Rycho Delivery, Timaru
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married. One child
Next of Kin Mrs Sarah SMITH (wife), Hadlow Road, Tycho Delivery, Timaru
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Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date 3 May 1966 Age 78 years
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Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 141, Plot 388
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leonard Gordon Smith was the son of Scottish-born James and Annie Philp Smith. He was educated at Knapdale School in Southland and then Claremont and Opihi schools in South Canterbury. He married Sarah Clarke Marshall on 4 November 1915 at Tycho. Their son James Marshall Smith was born on 10 October 1916 at Timaru.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [01 November 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [14 November 2017]; school Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [14 November 2017]

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