Horace Venning AWMM

Lindon AWMM

WWII 6963 AWMM

Male AWMM

b. 1916 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

son of Isaac Avory & Eleanor Agnes LINDON of Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

WW2 Pre 1940 AWMM Care of N.Z.R., Otoko, Gisborne AWMM

WW2 Mr. I.A. Lindon, care of Post-office, Waerenga-o-kuri, Gisborne (father) AWMM

Pre 1940 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Army AWMM

WWII 6963 AWMM

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

WW2 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.110 Labourer/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.110
Gisborne, Gisborne 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.110

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.110 Headquarters, 22nd (Wellington) Battalion 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.110 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

7 August 1946 AWMM

Killed on Active Service AWMM

181. WW 2 Soldiers' Area. AWMM Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne AWMM

MR. HORACE LINDON An inmate of the Cook Hospital for most of the three years he had been back in New Zealand after service with the Second N.Z.E.F. Mr. Horace V. Lindon. aged 28. died in the hospital early this morning. The youngest son of Mr. Lindon and the late Mrs. I. Lindon, Waerenga-o-kuri, Mr. Lindon was born in Gisborne and received his education at the Convent and Marist Brothers schools. A veteran of the Second Echelon, he served with the headquarters company of the 22nd Battalion through the Greece and Crete campaigns and was invalided back to New Zealand after the evacuation of Crete. He was treated at the Wellington Hospital for a short period and was then transferred to the Cook Hospital, where he remained for almost three years.
Apart from his father, surviving members of his family include his elder brother, Mr. C. Lindon, Levin, and four sisters, Miss E. Lindon, Gisborne. Mrs. R. Morris, Gisborne, Mrs. S. J. Hooper, Tolaga Bay, and Mrs. P. E, Buckingham, Gisborne. The interment will be at the Soldiers Plot at the Taruheru cemetery following a requiem mass in St. Mary’s Church, Lowe street, at 9 a.m. on Thursday. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2023 - OBITUARY
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21785, 7 AUGUST 1945, PAGE 4

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2920011
Sources Used

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  p.110 AWMM
• Cooke, P. (2018). Roll of New Zealand’s Second World War Dead. Wellington, N.Z.: Defence of New Zealand Study Group.; Peter Cooke; 2018. AWMM
  p.263 AWMM