Leslie Estelle Cowper
I whānau mai i te 13 Nov 1928 - I mate atu i te 2 May 1966
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 215403 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Lesley Estelle Cowper AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Charge Sister/Military AWMM
- Pakanga
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Leslie Estelle AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Cowper AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Lesley Estelle Cowper AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 215403 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 13 Nov 1928 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
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- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- Vietnam 215403 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- Post WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing Corps AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM - Vietnam Sister AWMM Royal New Zealand Army Nursing Corps AWMM
3rd Embarkation AWMM
- Post WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing Corps AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Vietnam Charge Sister/Military AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Lesley Cowper was a T/F nurse in the Provincial Hospital at Qui Nhon, South Vietnam.
Trained at Auckland Hospital. First commissioned in Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing Corps in Britain in 1957. After returning to New Zealand she was commissioned in the Royal New Zealand Army Nursing Corps in 1964. She was given a leave of absence to join the civilian New Zealand Surgical team in Vietnam and served there as a civilian nurse. Source: Sheryl McNabb, 100 Years of Military Nursing', p.333.
T/F Sister 28 August 1964; C/Sister 28 August 1965.
New Zealand Surgical Team Vietnam from 8 November 1965 until her death on 2 May 1966.
She was awarded the National Order of Merit-South Vietnam.
Most records including death registration spell the name Lesley. However her name is also spelled Leslie in publications.
Lesley Estelle Cowper served as a nurse with the New Zealand (Civilian) Surgical Team in Qui Nhon. She became seriously ill after contracting tuberculosis and died in a Saigon hospital on 2 May 1966. Leslie did serves as a Territorial Nursing Sister hence the service number shown. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 2 May 1966 AWMM
Age 37 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Died of Sickness AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Protestant Lawn, Block C, Section 7, Plot 41 AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- New Zealand Military Nursing: New Zealand Army Nursing Service - Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
http://web.archive.org/web/20220126041404/https://www.nzans.org/index.htm
Further Reference - New Zealand History online. New Zealand and the Vietnam War.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/vietnam-war
Further Reference - Australia's Vietnam War
https://web.archive.org/web/20241003003021/https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
Further Reference
- New Zealand Military Nursing: New Zealand Army Nursing Service - Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
- Ngā tuhinga
- Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co.
- Hornung, J. (2002). Angels in Vietnam: women who served. Lincoln, Nebraska: Writers Club Press.
- Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett.
- McNabb, S. (2015). 100 years New Zealand military nursing : New Zealand Army nursing service : Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, 1915-2015. Hawke's Bay, N.Z.: Sherayl McNabb.
p.333 - Black, E. A. (n.d.). N.Z. armed forces honours & awards : Korea, Malaya, South Vietnam, 1950-1972. Wellington, N.Z.: Defence Headquarters.
- McGibbon, I.C. (2010). New Zealand's Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle
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