John George Leslie

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

John George AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Leslie AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 44646 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

2 Jul 1872 AWMM
Kaeo, Bay of Islands, New Zealand AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of William Day & Cecelia LESLIE of Kaeo - later lived in Auckland

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 April 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11950277/john_george-leslie

Uri kiritahi

Mrs McKeown (sister), Kaeo, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 26 Apr 1917 AWMM Divorced AWMM
  Divorced, 1 child AWMM
• Son Valentine Phillip
  Public - Patricia Catherine - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Family Document

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 44646 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 26 Apr 1917-28 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 82 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Rifleman AWMM Reinforcements J Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 8 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  147 pounds AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  grey AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM

John Leslie was the son of William Day Leslie and Cecelia Leslie; husband of Olive Leslie, of 84, Nelson St., Auckland.

His brother, James Francis Leslie (44645), was also killed at Passchendaele.

Next of Kin: Mr V. P. Leslie, Kaeo, Nth Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  47 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Whangaroa Memorial Hall, Leigh Street, Kaeo 0478 AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10919113
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:13306
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:13306
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847800/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847800
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3182
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  60: 22
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 82 - The Pakeha (Mark III) : being the journal of the Left Wing of the 24th New Zealand Reinforcements. Burge, W.R. (William Ralph), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 24th Reinforcements : 1917