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Corporal LEONARD WILLIAM COONEY

Service Number: 8/2416
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

V. C. 10.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ada Cooney, of England. Also served in Egypt and Gallipoli.
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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