Baisley Leger

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Baisley AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Leger AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1315 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Catholic, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

12 Oct 1894 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW1 Pre 20 Oct 1915 AWMM 129 Wellington Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• WW1 129 Wellington Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

• Carpenter/Civilian AWMM
• Freezing Worker/Civilian AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• WW1 J. Leger (father), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM
• WW1 J. Leger (father), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 11 Oct 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• Sinai & Palestine AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1315 AWMM

Whakangungu ope taua

Narrow Neck, Auckland AWMM

Te urunga

• WW1 20 Oct 1915 AWMM
  Age  21 AWMM
  Boat builder/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Boat builder/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• 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

Tuhinga hauora

• 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

Te tūnga whakamutunga

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

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

Matenga

30 Mar 1973 NZ1973/27548
Age  86 AWMM

Urupā

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Soldiers Burial M Row 12, Plot 111 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• 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

Ngā tuhinga

• 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.