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Burial at sea after Kolombangara

Burial at sea after Kolombangara

Burial-at-sea ceremonies were held as the Leander limped to Tulagi after the action at Kolombangara in July 1943. In the traditional manner, each body was sewn into a hammock which had a shot of lead placed at the foot of it to make it sink.

HMNZS Leander casualties, Kolombangara 13 July 1943

Killed in action:

  • Arthur Barlow, Commissioned Electrican, (Auckland)
  • Jack Battersby, Acting Stoker Petty Officer
  • James Beattie, Abel Seaman, (Oamaru)
  • Brian Boate, Stoker 1st Class, (Auckland)
  • Gordon Cameron, Leading Seaman, (England)
  • William Clyde, Abel Seaman, (Outram)
  • Derisley Cullen, Petty Officer Stoker, (Auckland)
  • George Dryland, Abel Seaman, (Auckland)
  • Arthur Edwards, Stoker 1st Class, (Nelson)
  • Kenneth Fraser, Chief Engine Room Artificer (Auckland)
  • Frank Hooke, Abel Seaman, (Timaru)
  • Arthur Knight, Stoker (Auckland)
  • Ian Laidlaw, Stoker 2nd Class (Rangiora)
  • William McDougall, Able Seaman, (Dunedin)
  • Ronald Marshall, Chief Petty Officer, (Auckland)
  • Robert Morris, Abel Seaman, (Tauranga)
  • Savu Naulamatua, Ordinary Seaman, (Fiji)
  • Maurice O’Neil, Stoker 1st Class, (Ngatea)
  • T. Paumau, Abel Seaman, (Fiji)
  • H. Pawson, Abel Seaman, (England)
  • Raymond Rolston, Acting Leading Seaman, (Auckland)
  • Donald Slattery, Stoker 1st Class, (England)
  • Richard Summerell, Acting Leading Stoker, (Dunedin)
  • Norman Warren, Acting Petty Officer Stoker, (Christchurch)
  • Ernest Westcott, Engine Room Artificer, (Auckland)
  • Robert Wilson, Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, (Auckland)

    • Fifteen other men were wounded, three seriously. Further information on the men listed above can be found on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database

Credit:

Leander, by S. D. Waters in Episodes & Studies, Vol. II
War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1950

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