Leslie Lebeau Hunt

Forenames

Leslie Lebeau AWMM

Surname

Hunt AWMM

Also known as

• Leslie Libeau AWMM
• Leslie Libeaus Hunt AWMM

Service number

WWI 21824 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs W. Hunt (mother), 121 Fitzgerald Street, Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 21824 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Mill hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 62 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Rifleman AWMM 7th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, No. 5 Company AWMM

Leslie Hunt was the son of Victoria Hunt, of French Farm, Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand, and the Late Stephen Hunt.

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

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  18 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18051089
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737955/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737955
  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

References

• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 35
• 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
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.