Leonard Lawrence Beresford

Forenames

Leonard Lawrence AWMM

Surname

Beresford AWMM

Service number

WWI 31933 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs E.S. Beresford (mother), Meringa, Taringamotu, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31933 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Prison warder/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 15 Nov 1916-30 Jan 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 68 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 13th Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Leonard Beresford was the son of Walter Edwin and Edith Beresford, of Taringamotu, Hamilton, New Zealand

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

Next of Kin: Mr W. E. Beresford, Oruaiwi, Taumarunui (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22275639
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737658/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737658
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 23
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.