Ernest Richard Leary

Forenames

Ernest Richard AWMM

Surname

Leary AWMM

Service number

• WWI 1/689 AWMM
• WWI 8/2285 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

12 Mar 1894 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Sea View Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs D.H.L. Corrigan, Sea View Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 1/689 AWMM
• WWI 8/2285 AWMM

Military service

• York and Lancaster Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM
• Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 11 Aug 1914 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM Samoan Expeditionary Force, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM

Son of Richard and Florence Lucy Leary, of Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs W. H. Corrigan, 2nd Ave Tauranga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1))

Attended Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru. AWMM

Death

23 Jul 1916 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

Military Personnel File
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880333
Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 410
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
  p.74-76
• 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.
• McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-