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BRENTON, Leonard Francis Victor
(Service number 70926)

Aliases	Enlisted as Leonard Victor BRENTON
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/06/1897	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Annie BRENTON (mother), Roslyn Terrace, Timaru
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	38th Reinforcements, Specialists Company
Date	5 June 1918
Transport	Remuera
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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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
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	23 March 1982	Age	84 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Plot 381
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Leonard Victor Brenton was the son of John and Annie Brenton. He returned to New Zealand in March 1919 per the Willochra. In 1922 he married Hilda Phyllis Opie.

Sources

Auckalnd War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 December 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [14 December 2018]; Timaru Herald, 5 March 1919 (Papers Past) [14 December 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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