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Cenotaph record

Victor Dearsley Leeming

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Victor Dearsley AWMM
  • Surname
    Leeming AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    19276 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Catholic, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    13 July 1915 AWMM Napier, Hawkes Bay AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Pre 6 January 1941 AWMM 47 Lindsay Street, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 47 Lindsay Street, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs Veronica Mary Leeming (wife), 72 Abberley Crescent, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs Veronica Mary Leeming (wife), 72 Abberley Crescent, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Pacific Theatre of War AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    19276 AWMM
  • Military service
    Territorial Force (November 1940) AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Dysentery(several times), admitted 4NZGH AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Cancer AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Served in the Records Division IP NZAPO 150 of 3rd Division. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    25 August 1984 AWMM
    Age 69 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waimairi Cemetery, Grahams Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM Block 50 Plot 45 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: Christchurch Press, 27 August 1984

    Death notice: Christchurch Star, 27 August 1984 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Correspondence with family AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 5: WW2 123 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 9: WW2 229 AWMM
    • The Christchurch Press AWMM
      Death notice: 27 August 1984 AWMM
    • Christchurch Star AWMM
      Death notice: 27 August 1984 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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