Leslie Adams

Forenames

Leslie AWMM

Surname

Adams AWMM

Also known as

Leslie Arthur Adams AWMM

Service number

WWI 13/2994 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs G. Adams (mother), Norfolk Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 13/2994 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Painter AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 29 Feb 1916-04 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 46 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Trooper AWMM Auckland Mounted Rifles, A Squadron AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of Gilbert and Elizabeth S. Adams, of Taylors Rd., Norfolk Island

Next of Kin: Mrs E. S. Adams, Norfolk Island (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

15 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  18 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22311736
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1462803/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1462803
  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.
  23: 8
• 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.
  p.134
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.
• 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.