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Leonard Brookes

  • Service number
    • WWI 12/40 AWMM
    • WWI 12/40A AWMM
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Unknown photographer (ca. 1916). Group portrait of 14 servicemen in uniform. Standing, right to left: possibly Thomas Holloway 12/754, John Leonard Bellerby 4/533, Alexander George McDonald 13/104, Edward Ralph Drake 13/180, Francis William Huia Mason 12/803, William Joseph Stancombe 12/133, Charles Gordon Nicol 13/112. Middle row, right to left t: LM Bennett?, Chaplain Patrick Dore 13/655, Edwin Harrowell 12/907, John Macintosh Roberts 13/182. Seated, right to left: Aubrey Chitham Ollard 13/69A, Leonard Brookes 12/40A. Auckland War Memorial Museum call D501 P853 p1. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

Unknown photographer (ca. 1916). Group portrait of 14 servicemen in uniform. Standing, right to left …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Leonard AWMM
  • Surname
    Brookes AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI 12/40 AWMM
    • WWI 12/40A AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    5 December 1891 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM 25 Hargreaves Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Samuel Brookes, Hargreaves Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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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
    • Other, WWI AWMM
      Nature of Injury: G.S.W. left arm Pension: 10/- Percent of disability: [Not stated] Source: New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM
    • Other, WWI AWMM
      Nature of Injury: G.S.W. right lung, bullet still in Pension: 10/- Percent of disability: [Not stated] Source: New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Service number listed as 12/40 in Nominal Roll but listed as 12/40a in Military Personnel file.

    Present address (as listed in New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%): 25 Hargreaves Street, Ponsonby

    Present address (as listed in New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%): 31 Ireland Street, Ponsonby AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 81 AWMM
    • Palmer, Margaret E. World War I autograph album, 1916. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2005-19. AWMM
      World War I autograph album containing the signatures of 70 New Zealand soldiers at No. 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1916. AWMM
    • New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%, compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent War Pensions, and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) Discharged and undischarged hospital patients, assessed as suffering permanent disability, but not yet in receipt of a pension at date (28-4-20). New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services. NZ Times Co. (Printer). AWMM

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