Leslie Victor Hulbert

Captain

Conflict:

WW1

Additional Information:

Son of C. P. and M. A. Hulbert, of Christchurch, New Zealand.

References:

CWGC

Archives New Zealand

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

CAPTAIN L. V. HULBERT. Cable advice has been received that Captain Leslie Hulbert, a brother of Mrs S. C. Thompson, of Christchurch, has been killed in action in France. Captain Hulbert was well known in Christchurch, being the son of Mr C. P. Hulbert, at one time mayor of this city. Prior to enlisting he was in the service of Messrs Murray Roberts and Company, Wellington, as accountant. On the outbreak of war he was attached to the Garrison Artillery in Wellington, and after serving in the forts left New Zealand with the Ist Howitzer Battery to leave these shores, with the rank of lieutenant. He served in Egypt and Gallipoli, and at the time of his death was in charge of a heavy trench mortar division in France. The late Captain Hulbert was an ex-pupil of the Sumner and New Brighton Schools. He has three other brothers on active service, one brother, Major E. G. Hulbert, being at present stationed in Egypt.

SUN (CHRISTCHURCH), VOLUME III, ISSUE 852, 2 NOVEMBER 1916, PAGE 6

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Casualty

Service Number:

2/1018

Name:

Leslie Victor Hulbert

Rank:

Captain

Date of Birth:

Not known

Next of Kin:

Charles Partridge Hulbert (father), 26 Hargreaves Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Enlistment Address:

26 Hargreaves Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Unit:

New Zealand Field Artillery

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Killed in action

Date of Death:

21 October 1916

Day of Death:

Saturday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW1

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

3rd Reinforcements

Embarkation Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Embarkment Date:

14 February 1915

Transport:

HMNZT 17
HMNZT 18
HMNZT 19

Vessel:

Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt

Cemetery Reference:

II. B. 9.

Cemetery Location:

France