Lester Harry Ransby

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Stuart Arthur and May Mary Ransby; husband of Myra Ransby, of Brightwater, Nelson.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Lester Harry Ransby, aged 27, a private attached to the military staff at the King Edward Barracks, was found to have committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a .303 calibre service rifle on -May 6. Albert Leslie Emerson, staff sergeant-major and warrant-officer attached to the New Zealand Permanent Staff, stated that Ransby was an assistant storeman. On the afternoon of May 6 he heard someone go into the armoury and soon after he heard a rifle shot. On investigation he found Ransby with a severe head injury. He was dead on his arrival at hospital. He had been speaking to Ransby shortly before his death, and there was nothing in his behaviour or manner to indicate that he was about to take his life.

PRESS, VOLUME LXXVIII, ISSUE 23661, 11 JUNE 1942, PAGE 6

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Casualty

Service Number:

3/34/279

Name:

Lester Harry Ransby

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

New Zealand Army Service Corps

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Suicide

Date of Death:

08 May 1942

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Christchurch (Bromley) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

20. 3D.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand