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LEIGH, Edward Leo
(Service number 47344)

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Birth

Date 9 April 1889 Place of Birth Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Craigie Avenue, Timaru
Occupation Coachsmith
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs Ellen LEIGH (mother), Craigie Avenue, Timaru
Religion Roman Catholic
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 26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date 9 June 1917
Transport Willochra
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 21 June 1948 Age 60 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference General Section, Row 99, Plot 445
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edward Leo Leigh was the younger son of James Thomas and Ellen (née O'Shea) Leigh. He returned to New Zealand on the Maunganui in June 1919. Edward married Annie Sullivan in 1923.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 March 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) 17 March 2018]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [18 March 2018]Timaru Herald, 16 June 1919 (Papers Past) [17 March 2018]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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