Identity
Title
Forenames
Leo Max AWMM
Surname
Natzke AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
Service number
WWI 11/544 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Civilian life
Birth
Date of birth
Place of birth
Birth notes
Address before enlistment
WW1 Pre 15 August 1914 AWMM Whangamomona, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
WW1 August Natzke, Matapara, Te Awamutu, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
Pre 16 October 1914
AWMM Single AWMM
Service
Capture details
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Liberation Repatriation
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POW serial number
Medical notes
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
5 feet 6 inches AWMM - Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
159 pounds AWMM - Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Blue AWMM - Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Brown AWMM - Distinguishing marks, Unknown Period AWMM
tattoo marks on both forearms AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Illness (dysentery): Transferred from Mudros on 1 July 1915, to Seang Bee, Malta. Discharged on 4 August 1915, and returned to Gallipoli. AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Was fatally wounded on 27 August 1915, and died the next day at 16 Casualty Clearing Station, No. 2 Post, Anzac Cove, on 28 August. AWMM - Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Biographical information
Son of August Heinrich and Poline Natzke (nee Tunrick), of Matapara, Te Awamutu, who sailed with their first-born child, Carl Friedrich, from Hamburg, Germany, in April 1876, on the ship 'Fritz Reuter', arriving in Wellington, New Zealand, in August 1876.
The family was among the 69 immigrants from the 'Fritz Reuter' selected by Arthur Halcombe for settlement within the Manchester Block.
August and Poline settled in Halcombe, which lies halfway between Marton and Feilding, and had nine further children: Otto Heinrich, Emmel August, Anna Emma (m. Anderson), Louis Albert, Helena Amelia (m. O'Dea), Hilda Pauline (m. Wischnowsky), Leo Max, Olga Alma, and Alma Emma Natzke (m. Waterson).
After Poline's death, August Natzke married Frances Emma Carter, and had four more children: Harold Zulu, Zola Mervyn, Herbert William, and Franz Oscar Natzke. AWMM
Death
Death
Date of death
Age at death
Place of death
Cause of death
Death notes
Cemetery
Cemetery name
Grave reference
Obituary
NATZKE. – Died of wounds at Anzac, Dardanelles, on August 28, 1915, Leo Max Natzke, fifth son of August Natzke, Matapara, Te Awamutu; aged 26 years. [Source: New Zealand Herald, 6 October 1915, p. 1] AWMM
Memorial name
Memorial reference
Memorials
Memorial name
- Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
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Sources
External links
Documents
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
Page No: 532 AWMM - Auckland Weekly News AWMM
New Zealand's Roll of Honour, 1915, Illustrated List, Wilson and Horton, Auckland, p. 93. AWMM - The New Zealand Herald AWMM
Obituary: 6 October 1915, p. 1. AWMM
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