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Biography: Thornton, Leonard Whitmore

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Bibliography

Henderson, A., D. Green and P. Cooke. The Gunners: a history of New Zealand artillery. Auckland, 2008

McGibbon, I. New Zealand’s Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, 2010

McGibbon, I. ed. The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history. Auckland, 2000

Murphy, W.E. 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery. Wellington, 1966

Pugsley, C. A bloody road home: World War Two and New Zealand’s heroic Second Division. Auckland, 2014

Reid, P. ‘Lieutenant General Sir Leonard Thornton; command in war and peace’. In Born to lead? Portraits of New Zealand commanders. Ed. G. Harper and J. Hayward. Auckland, 2003, pp. 209–221

How to cite this page

Chris Pugsley. 'Thornton, Leonard Whitmore', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231547/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).