LEWIS LEAMAN

Trooper Lewis Maurice McPherson Leaman was the youngest of the Papanui men to die in World War I. He had enlisted on 21 August 1914 while still only 19 years old. He had been educated at Belfast School and prior to his enlistment had been working as a labourer on the Brookdale farm in Parnassus in North Canterbury. He sailed with the Main Body in October 1914 and was part of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles' reinforcements that arrived in Gallipoli in May 1915. He was killed in action on Walker 's Ridge, on 14 July 1915. He is buried in the canterbury cemetery at Anzac, and commemorated on three war memorials - at Belfast in Christchurch, on the small Spotswood and Leamington memorial in the Parnassus area, and on the memorial in the nearby town of Cheviot.

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