Leonard Allen

Forenames

Leonard AWMM

Surname

Allen AWMM

Service number

WWI 27426 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

E. Allen (father), Wairio, Southland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 27426 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM

• New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141. AWMM
• Leonard Allen was a farm labourer for the Donnelly's property at Wairio when he enlisted for the war
  Public - Suzie - Digitising Archivist - Researcher - 5 February 2023 - Taken from research done within local district records and government archives.

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Invercargill Cenotaph, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand AWMM
• Ōtautau and Districts Soldier's Memorial - as seen below (but mispelled as Allan):
  Public - Suzie - Digitising Archivist - Researcher - 5 February 2023 - https://ehive.com/collections/202139/objects/1597949/otautau-districts-soldiers-memorial

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22269057
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737606/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737606
  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.
  41: 14
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.