Pearl Estelle
Beloved wife of
Charles LEEMING
Died 19th November 1918
Also their beloved son
Sergt. Reginald Eustace LEEMING
N.Z.F.A. [NZ Field Artillery]
Died at Aldershot
2nd February 1917
Aged 21
“Nearer my God to thee”
Also
Charles LEEMING
Died 10 December 1947
Aged 80

Reginald’s occupation at enlist:
Clerk of Lyttelton Times Co.

Died at Connaught Hospital, Aldershot.

Link to photograph of Reginald’s grave in
Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England
www.flickr.com/photos/33894481@N04/5462130694/

Reginald’s Cenotaph database record [with portrait]:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/8669.detail?Or…

Commemorative Roll – Australian War Memorial page
Confirms he died of [tubercular] Meningitis
www.awm.gov.au/research/people/commemorative_roll/person….

Reginald’s Commonwealth War Grave Commission record:
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=359460

His military records are accessible online:
www.archives.govt.nz/digitalarchive/archives:19076
[select save, download and then open]

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 29, 2 February 1917, Page 8
Reported as not a severe case
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s…

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 32, 6 February 1917, Page 7
Listed as dying of disease
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s…

Further information of his name appearing on a plaque in St Matthew’s Church in Cranford Street, Christchurch:
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/stalbans…

At time of death*:
Pearl of 17 Stratford Street; born Tasmania, Australia and
In NZ 12 years

Charles of 269 Armagh Street and retired secretary
Block 48 Plot 232

*Data from Christchurch Cemeteries database

with thanks to Sarndra Lees