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David Alexander Leith

1890-1957

Portrait of David Alexander Leith

Unit

1st Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1661

About

Born in New Zealand

8 September 1890
Residence

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Seaman

Employer

Captain J. Bell, Winston Limited, Auckland
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 67

8 December 1957

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5544 11/0067587, Military Personnel File.

Ibid., AABK 18805 W5562 152/0132332, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 7.

Photograph

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-L688.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “David Alexander Leith (1890-1957)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/483

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