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LESLIE, Theodore James
(Service number 48973)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31/10/1890	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Architect
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Margaret LESLIE (mother), 6 Thomas Street, 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	26th Reinforcements, G Company
Date	9 July 1917
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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

Architectural draughtsman

Death

Date	8 April 1946	Age	55 years
Place of Death	Hawera
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hawera Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Theodore James Leslie was the youngest son of Thomas William and Margaret (née Coutts) Leslie. Theodore returned to New Zealand in December 1918.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [11 April 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 April 2019]; hawera Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [11 April 2019]; Star, 11 December 1918 [08 April 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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