Leonard Hugh Wilson

Forenames

Leonard Hugh AWMM

Surname

Wilson AWMM

Service number

• WWI 3/4340 AWMM
• WWII 5428 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 11 Argyle Street, Claudelands, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• WW1 C. Wilson (father), 22 Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• WW2 Mrs Marjorie Lilian Wilson (wife), 93 West End Road, Westmere, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• Merchant Navy AWMM

Service number

• WWI 3/4340 AWMM
• WWII 5428 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
• WW2 Mechanical specialist/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 Hospital Ship No. 2, 7th Voyage from NZ AWMM Vessel was HMHS Marama AWMM Private AWMM HMHS Marama AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Acting Sergeant/Military AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, Headquarters AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Second Echelon AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW2 Sergeant/Military AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion AWMM

Son of Charles and Lucilla Naomi Wilson, of Wellington; husband of Marjorie Lillian Wilson, of Raglan AWMM

Death

27 Nov 1941 AWMM
Age  40 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military Personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24064749
  Sources Used
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html
  Sources Used
• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2769682
  Sources Used

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  91: 11
• 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.
  WW2 2: WW2 202
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Atkinson, N. (2005). Hell or high water : New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war. HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.