Leslie Lambert Cashmore Israel

Forenames

Leslie Lambert Cashmore AWMM

Surname

Israel AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/2170 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Methodist, Christian AWMM

Birth

• 16 Sept 1888 AWMM
• 16 Sept 1888 NZWGT

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 1 Tasman Street, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

E.A. Israel (father), Post-office, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/2170 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM
• WW1 23 Feb 1915 NZWGT

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Jun 1915-01 Aug 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 25 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti AWMM Sergeant AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

05 Oct 1917 {Age 28} AWMM Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Wounded in action and admitted to 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station on 4 October 1917 where he died of wounds the following day. AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Death

5 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II. E. 3. AWMM

Memorial name

Remembered on the Cenotaph at Anzac Park, Nelson

Public - Peter - Researcher - 27 April 2018 - on site

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18052297
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/136890/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/136890
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1163
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 359
• NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 5: Includes portrait
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 25. The Tahitian tatler : the unofficial organ of that portion of the Fifth Reinforcements on board H.M.N.Z.T. no. 25, Tahiti. (1915). Bombay, India: Printed by the Times Press for the Units of the Fifth New Zealand Reinforcements.