Baisley Leger
Born 12 Oct 1894 - Died 30 Mar 1973
- Service number
- WWI 16/1315 AWMM
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- Inter War Sergeant AWMM New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
- 12 Oct 1894 AWMM
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- Address before enlistment
- WW1 Pre 20 Oct 1915 AWMM 129 Wellington Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- WW1 129 Wellington Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
- Next of kin
- WW1 J. Leger (father), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM
- WW1 J. Leger (father), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Sinai & Palestine AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1315 AWMM
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Military decorations
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
- Narrow Neck, Auckland AWMM
- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 20 Oct 1915 AWMM
Age 21 AWMM
Boat builder/Civilian AWMM - WW1 Boat builder/Civilian AWMM
- WW1 20 Oct 1915 AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Sergeant AWMM Rarotongans, Attached B Company AWMM 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM - WW1 11 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 67 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Sergeant AWMM 9th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
5 foot 11 inches AWMM - Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
127 pounds AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Invalided to New Zealand, Arawa July 1916 AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
26 June 1917, wounded, gas AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
16 - 23 July 1917 admitted hospital, France AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
July 1918 admitted to hospital trachoma AWMM
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- Inter War 7 Mar 1919 AWMM
Discharged no longer physically fit for war service, trachoma R & L. AWMM
Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Attested he was born in Samoa. Living in Tongan since 1897.
First embarked in February 1916, invalided to New Zealand and then embarked a second time October 1916.
Served 183 days in New Zealand and overseas 2 years 321 days, total 3 years 139 days.
Promoted Sergeant 8 September 1917
Transferred to New Zealand Rarotongan Company 5 March 1918
Of Tongan descent. His brother Sergeant Francis Leger also served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 30 Mar 1973 NZ1973/27548
Age 86 AWMM - Date of death
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- Cemetery
- Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Soldiers Burial M Row 12, Plot 111 AWMM
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- Obituary
- Baisley Leger was the son of James Paul Leger and Mereste Magila Tiumala, both born in Samoa but living in Nuku’alofa since 1897. He was a boat builder who enlisted in New Zealand in 1915, with the Rarotongans attached to B company, 3rd Maori Contingent. He served as a Sergeant and was wounded in a gas attack and evacuated to the 7th Field Ambulance, then to a Convalescent Hospital in France. He married Sela Vete in 1920 and they travelled to New Zealand in 1920. He later married Amelia Toli. He died in Auckland in 1973.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 October 2024 - https://kanivatonga.co.nz/2024/04/tongans-remember-volunteers-from-the-islands-who-served-in-first-world-war-2
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Memorial
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Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10918839
Further Reference - NZ History: Leger Brothers
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/leger-brothers
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
25: 3 - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
43: 36 - Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
- 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. 4: Includes portrait - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
- HMNZT 67. Long Trail. (1916). On board ship:Published by the Right Wing of the 18th Reinforcements.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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