Cenotaph : 8764

Cenotaph ID: 
8764
Rank Last Held: 
Captain
Forenames: 
James Robert Ruston
Surname: 
Leys
Serial Number: 
15/557A|4/557
Enlistment Address: 
19 Colombo Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment: 
Clerk
Embarkation Body: 
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Embarkation Date: 
1917-01-19 00:00:00
Place of Embarkation: 
Wellington, New Zealand
Destination: 
Suez, Egypt (3 December 1914)
Vessel: 
Ulimaroa
Nominal Roll Number: 
52
Page on Nominal Roll: 
7
Date of Death: 
17 April 1918
Location of Cemetery/Memorial: 
France
Cause of Death: 
Died of wounds
Cemetery Name: 
Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference: 
V.D. 21
Archives NZ Reference: 
R10919438
Memorial Name: 
Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand|Brooklyn War Memorial, Wellington, New Zealand
First Rank: 
Second Lieutenant
Next of Kin: 
Mrs R.R. Leys (mother), 19 Colombo Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Transport: 
HMNZT 74
Marital Status: 
Single
Last Unit Served: 
Otago Infantry Regiment, 3 Battalion, Entrenching Company

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