Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf.

Harding was a Lieutenant in the Pioneer Battalion WWI and was awarded the Military Cross.

"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of a wiring party. He was taking his party up to the outpost line with wiring material under the most adverse circumstances, as it was very dark and raining heavily. When just outside the frontline, they came under a heavy barrage, but by his fine person example of keeping his men together andled them through the barrage to their work which they completed satisfactorily." (London Gazette, 9 January 1918)

He enlisted for WWI in 1914 and served in Gallipoli and on the Western Front.  He was also a Captain with the 28 (Maori) Battalion in WWII.

Harding was killed in action in Crete 1941.  

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