Leonard Whitworth Thompson

FULL NAME Leonard Whitworth Thompson

RANK LAST HELD Private

FORENAME(S) Leonard Whitworth

SURNAME Thompson

WAR World War I, 1914-1918

SERIAL NO. 89487

GENDER Male

PLACE OF BIRTH Tainui, Otago, New Zealand

NEXT OF KIN Margaret Selina Thompson (wife), Fielding, New Zealand

LAST UNIT SERVED New Zealand Training Unit

PLACE OF DEATH Feilding, Manawatu, New Zealand

DATE OF DEATH 13 October 1918

YEAR OF DEATH 1918

CEMETERY NAME Feilding Cemetery, Feilding, New Zealand

GRAVE REFERENCE Block 2. Lot 229.

MEMORIAL NAME Featherston Cemetery Memorial, Featherston, New Zealand

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Leonard Thompson was the husband of Margaret Selins Thompson, of Piopio, Te Kuiti, New Zealand. Born at Tanui.

DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE Featherston Cemetery Memorial name panel beginning Cartwright, Featherston Cemetery Memorial name panel beginning Johnsen

ARCHIVES NZ SOURCE Military personnel file

FURTHER REFERENCES

Cemetery inscription, Fielding Cemetery. URL: http://www.mdc.govt.nz/asp/publicregisters.asp?level1=public_regist... New Zealand History online. Featherston War Memorial

SOURCES USED Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org

Manawatu District Council cemetery search

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/33370.detail?Ordi...

Private in NZTU, file number 89487. Husband of Margaret Selins Thompson, of Piopio, Te Kuiti. Born at Tanui

Sources

1. New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/nzefrohT.html / Ref 17.4.2021