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Leslie George Batt

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Leslie George AWMM
  • Surname
    Batt AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    61235 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status
    Pre 1941 AWMM Married/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Italy AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    61235 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW2 1941 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.25 Sawmill hand/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.25
    Invercargill, Southland 2NZEF Nom. Roll 4, p.25
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      28 June 1942 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - P.G. 106, Vercelli, Italy Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
      Italy, Europe Italy Imperial POW Alphabetical List
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
      Killed on active service whilst a prisoner of war AWMM
    • 24 April 1944 AWMMOther, WWII AWMM
      Shot while at large. AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Leslie Batt was the son of George and Elizabeth Batt; husband of Iris Agnes Batt, of Waimatua, Southland, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    24 April 1944 AWMM
    Age 33 AWMM
    Italy, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
    24 or 25 April 1944 (one Australian POW with Batt, stated 25th April) Public - Katrina - Researcher - 19 July 2021 - Affidavit by an Australian POW who was with Batt in the farmhouse shelter.
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
    at a farmhouse hideout in wooded hills near Cascine dei Canisei, north-east of Andorno Micca, Italy. Public - Katrina - Researcher - 19 July 2021 - Affidavit by an Australian POW who was with Batt in the farmhouse shelter, as well first-hand accounts of other POW and also Italian witnesses. Also a War Crimes file held UK Archives about the murders.
  • Cause of death
    • Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM
    • fascists of Montello Battalion. Batt was exposed by a spy. Public - Katrina - Researcher - 19 July 2021 - Affidavit by an Australian POW who was with Batt in the farmhouse shelter, as well first-hand accounts of other POW and also Italian witnesses. Also a War Crimes file held UK Archives about the murders.
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Milan War Cemetery, Italy AWMM V. B. 5. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Leslie, George as you were also known,
    My father was also an escaped POW from Campo 106.
    I’ve researched many of the men who worked with you both on the rice farms of Piedmont in April-Sept 1943. You were so very unlucky, and I have been saddened to write with graphic detail of your murder within my work about the POWs. Most of your peers made it.
    Know that you were not forgotten, by the POWs with you, men who wrote your name in their liberation reports. Nor by the Italians who gave affidavits to War Crimes tribunal.
    Eva and Elma who cared for you and those men with you, never forgot you. They tended to your bodies and were devastated that men they cared for had been brutally betrayed by fascist spies, and that you were murdered. I have seen videos of Italians visiting the farmhouse ruins to pay respects. They too mourn young foreign men killed in their hills. I hope I’ve honoured you.
    Public - Katrina - Researcher - 19 July 2021
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2816738
    Sources Used
  • References
    • List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 4 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1941 to 30 June, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.25 AWMM
    • Great Britain Army. (1945). Italy : imperial prisoners of war alphabetical list : section 4. London, U.K.: Government Printer. AWMM
    • Deaths While Prisoner of War - Navy, Army, Air Force and Civilians [WW2 NZ POW Deaths], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAAA 7393 Box 1 (R25405152). AWMM
    • Kittel, K. (2019). Shooting through : campo 106 escaped pows after the italian armistice. West Geelong, Victoria : Echo Books, 2019. AWMM

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