NEW ZEALAND ROLLS OF HONOUR AND WAR MEMORIALS
LEESTON AND ELLESMERE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL, LEESTON, CANTERBURY.

Location: High Street, Leeston, Canterbury.

THEY WHOM THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES, AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM.

THIS MEMORIAL WAS RAISED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE TO THE HONOUR OF THE MEN FROM THE COUNTY OF ELLESMERE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919. BELOW ARE ADDED THE NAMES OF THEIR BROTHERS IN ARMS WHO FELL WITH EQUAL VALOUR FELL IN WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945. LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.

UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, VISCOUNT JELLICOE OF SCAPA, G.C.B, O.M, G.C.V.O, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND 19 OCTOBER 1924.


1914 - 1918
Irwell Riding
BALLOCH David
BOAG John W
BUCHLY Albert V
COE Ralph R
CROSSEN H Leslie
CROSSEN Stanley H
DAWSON John R
DUFF Robert
HENDERSON William C
HESLOP William
HOGG Thomas
LAING John F (M.M)
MATTHEWS Frank N
McCLELLAND J James
PARRIS Bert
PEARCE John
PETRIE William H
RUSSELL Leonard T
SCRIMSHAW Archibald
STAPLETON George
UPSTON Percival J
1914 - 1918
Leeston Riding
AIKEN Patrick
ALLEN Samuel
BELL Sidney
BROWN Samuel
BUTLER John
CAMPBELL Peter D
CARTER Walter
CONNOLLY Robert H
FLANAGAN Daniel
HAMMOND Harold H
HAMPTON Frederick S
HANSEN George
HARRIS Randal F W
HOGAN James J
JOHNSON George A
JONES W G Henry
KELLY William
MACHATTIE Daniel H
MCLACHLAN Clement R
MCLACHLAN Colin J A
McMANUS John B
McRAE Alexander P
O'BOYLE John
PATTERSON John R
RAPLEY Hursey L
REDMOND Thomas
ROBB William J
SCOTT Frank H
SMYTH William V
STREZ Frederick M
TAYLOR Ewen
WARNOCK John E E
1914 - 1918
Southbridge Riding
ABBOTT Ameral C
ABBOTT George D
BAXTER Oliver
BREEZE William H
CHEYNE George
CONSTANCE John E
FOUNTAIN Charles W
GARFORTH William
HARNEY Daniel J
HARNEY Robert M
HORNE George
HOWATSON David
HUNTER William H
McCLELLAND David
McGILL Gilbert
NEWLOVE Cordner
SIMPSON William R
SPENCE William
TAIAROA George
TURNER John
WELSH William H
WITHERS Thomas W



1939 - 1945
Ellesmere County
ARMSTRONG Albert J
BONGARD Harper M
COE A John
GOULDEN D Allan
GOULDEN Hector S
GOWLAND Raymond B
GRAHAM Richard
HANNAH Wilfred J
HUTCHISON Jeffrey
JOHNSON Lloyd H
JONES Desmond C
LAMBIE Arthur H
LEYBOURNE Harold E J
LINE George E C
McALEER Lester
McMILLAN Lyall A
MILLAR Douglas L G
MONTGOMERY R Gilpin
NEWTON George
PEARCE Colin R (D.F.M)
SHELLOCK Percy
SKINNER Douglas H
WATSON Reginald F
WICKLIFFE Robert J D



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