Lester Royal Radford

Forenames

Lester Royal AWMM

Surname

Radford AWMM

Service number

WWI 36487 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

12 Sept 1895 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Walter Edmund Radford (father), Puaha, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 36487 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Railway cleaner/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 19 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 75 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Rifleman AWMM Reinforcements, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Lester Radford was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Edmund Radford, of "Karetu," Seaward Valley, Kaikoura, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20803789
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/848102/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/848102
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 30
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement. De La Mare, Frederick Archibald, 1877-, editor. Rowland, A.E.M. (Albert Edward MacKay), editor. Harris, E.W. (Edwin Walter), editor. -- [On board ship] : [Magazine Committee] Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1917].