George Leef

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

George AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Leef AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20715 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

Whirinaki, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1895

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

. Son of Hori and Namu Leef

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Kawa Kawa

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Uri kiritahi

Wario Leef (brother), Waipuna, Kawakawa, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20715 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Hori and Namu Leef

Next of Kin: c/-Mr W. H. Black Kawakawa Bay of Islds (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

30 Dec 1918 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Holy Trinity Churchyard (Anglican), SH1, Pakaraka, Northland, New Zealand AWMM

Pānui Matenga

20715 Geo. Leef died at Kawa Kawa on December 29th from influenza. He was buried at Pakaraka on December 30th, there being a large attendance of returned men at the funeral to pay last tribute of respect to jtheir deceased comrade

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 6 September 2024 - ANZAC RECORDER
Observer, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 11 January 1919, Page 15

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Hokianga Arch of Remembrance, Kohukohu, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM
• Kohukohu Town Hall, 25 Beach Road, Kohukohu, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10918761
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage - Kohukohu First World War memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/kohukohu-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643155/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643155
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Leaf, J.M. (1983). Sons of Te Ramaroa = Nga tama a Te Ramaroa. Kaikohe, N.Z.: Author.
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 40
• Leaf, J.M. (1990). Leaf family reunion, 1832-1990. Kaikohe, N.Z.: Author.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.