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L/Cpl. Cyril John Lennings
British Army 1st Btn. No 3 Company Hertfordshire Regiment
from:Little Hallingbury, Hertfordshire
(d.27th September 1917)
Cyril Lennings was just 21 when he died. He was the youngest of four brothers who served in WW1 and he was the second of the four to die. His brother George died a month before him. While George's body was never recovered Cyril is buried at the Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension. Both were serving in Flanders and both were casualties of the Battle of Passchendaele, the Third battle of Ypres.
Cpl. Joseph Cyril Lennon
Australian Imperial Forces D Coy. 33rd Btn.
from:Emmaville, New South Wales
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Joseph Lennon was a Miner from Emmaville, New South Wales. He was killed on the 7th of June 1917 and has no known grave.
Maj. Hubert Maxwell Lenox-Conyngham DSO MID
British Army Army Veterinary Corps
from:Kilsby, Rugby
(d.15th March 1918)
Major Lenox-Conyngham D.D.V.S. was born in Dublin. He was the son of Col. Sir William and Lady Lenox-Conyngham; husband of Eva Lenox-Conyngham (nee Darley), of The Paddocks, Kilsby, Rugby. He served in the Somaliland Campaign (Mentioned in Despatches).
He was 47 when he died and is buried in the north west part of the Kilgobbin Burial Ground, Kilgobbin, Dublin, Ireland.
Lt.Col. J. A.M. Lenox-Conyngham
British Army Connaught Rangers
from:Armagh, Co. Armagh
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
Lt.Col. Lenox-Conyngham is remembered in St. PatrickĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s Cathedral, Armagh.
Cpl. Charles Lenthall
British Army 2nd (Welsh) Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Peterston-super-Ely, South Glamorgan
With the RAMC, Charles Lenthall made a desert crossing on foot from Cairo to Jerusalem through Sinai and Palestine. He bought a mummified head from a tomb raider. He travelled from Kantara to Jerusalem (with friend Norman Johnston), and was ordered to move to Ali Mind in charge of 4 mule-driven ambulances 1 mile from the front line. For his length of overseas service, Cpl. Lenthall earned four blue chevrons.
Pte. Frederick William Lenthall
British Army 6th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Bristol
(d.19th July 1915)
Frederick Lenthall was a distant relative of Australian Lenthall's living in Sydney, we only found out about him when visiting the Bedford House Cemetery.
Pte. Walter Lenton
British Army 1st. Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Little London, Benwick, Cambridgeshire
(d.16th April 1918)
Walter Lenton, my grandfather, is commemorated on the wall of the Tyne Cot cemetery. My mother is in her hundredth year and remembers that when she was a child her father was reported missing for about a year. I am concerned therefore, as to the accuracy of the date of death given shown in the Government register. Is there any way it can be verified and is it possible to establish exactly where he died?
Update: Commonwealth War Graves deal with all memorials, they can be contacted via their website.
James Leonard
British Army
from:St. George in the East, London
James Leonard, my grandfather, fought in WWI. His older brother by 5 years, Edward, a Quarter Master with the final rank of Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, would die in the war in France less that a month before it ended. James trained at St. Aubans as noted on his marriage certificate when he married his girlfriend, Wilhelmina Degerlund, new mother of their daughter, just before going overseas in 1914. (Unfortunately, she would die at age 30 of TB in 1926 acquired as a result of working with the poor as a social worker for her church.) During WWI James Leonard was bitten on the neck by a horse but otherwise survived the war. He did not return from fighting in Europe until 1919, fathering a second daughter, Pat, with his wife in 1920.
Pat Leonard felt it was her duty to join the WAAF in April 1940 as the family did not have any sons to fight in WWII. She became a plotter at RAF Biggin Hill during the worst of 1940 during the Battle of Britain, and survived a direct bomb hit on the Ops Building. Later trained as a cipher officer. She was posted to No.1 AOL at RAF Wigtown in Scotland where she met her future Canadian husband, an officer and pilot in the RAF named John McKinley Carswell. They married in 1942. By the time she got pregnant she was senior WAAF officer at the station as a Section Officer (lieutenant). She resigned her commission in late 1942 to join her husband in Harrogate where she gave birth to two sons before moving to Canada as a war bride in March 1945 with her two sons to join him there as he had been transferred home by the RCAF in June 1944 on compassionate leave to visit her dying mother and was grounded permanently by his eye test so would not be able to return to the UK during the war. Of the two sons, one went to military college in Canada and served 3 years in the 1960s as a captain in the Canadian Army Signal Corps at Kingston, where his father had served in 1939 before going overseas in January 1940. John McKinley Carswell later transferred to the RAF and RCAF in Britain. His other son born in WWII became an air cadet but losing a kidney prevented him from joining the military as he wanted to do. In total three generations of military service through two World Wars.
Pte. Martin Leonard
British Army 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Warrington
(d.12th Oct 1916)
Martin Leonard was my Great Grandad. He was killed in action when my Grandad, his only child, was 10 months old. When my Grandad died, I was given his father's death penny. I have spent a few years trying to find out where he was killed. I now know he his listed as missing on the Thiepval Memorial, and I think he may have died at the Battle of le Transloy.
RIP, you are remembered.
Private Michael Joseph Leonard
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st May 1915)
My Great Uncle was in Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, but died aged 22 of Pythisis in India in 1915 - any information, or pointers in right direction as to how he would have lived and died. I know he is remembered on the War Memorial at Chennai, or Madras. WOuld love to know more, please. All we have is a photograph of him as a young boy. He was originally from Ireland.
Pte. Michael Leonard
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
Michael Leonard served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Gnr. Percy Harold Leonard
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Ć‚Ā Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.18th July 1917)
Gunner Percy Leonard was aged 19 when he died. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Leonard, 7 Warwick Street, Swindon, Wiltshire. Percy is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave I.G.18.
Peter Leonard
British Army
My Grandfather, Peter Leonard, served in WWI, I would like to know which regiment he was with. He was married to Mary Garvin, both came from Keighley, Yorkshire, he died in the 1930's.
His brother, Martin Leonard, served in the West Yorkshire Regt initially, was wounded and subsequently served as a medic.
Pte. William Henry Leonard
British Army 2/16th Btn. London Regiment
from:Bournemouth
(d.6th Dec 1917)
William Leonard died on 6th of December 1917, not sure if from sickness or wounds, but it was two days before last attack on Jerusalem. He may have been wounded earlier at Beersheba. He was 37 and is buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery. I have his British War Medal.
Cpl. William John Leonard
British Army 11th Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Cilfynydd Pontypridd
(d.2nd February 1917)
William Leonard was my grandmother's brother. The story that my grandmother used to say was that William died of a severe head injury. It must have been sometime later when the family had been notified of Williamsā€™s death. That my grandmother realised that on that particular day she had a severe headache. William also had a brother Thomas Leonard. I have no information for Thomas other than he served in the Welsh Horse regiment and was killed in action in Palestine, it is believed in the family that Thomas had been gassed.
L/Cpl. James Leonardi MM.
British Army 9th Btn. York and Lanccaster Regiment
from:St Annes, Nottingham
James Leonardi was born in 1874 and lived with his parents Frederick and Hannah at St Annes, Nottingham. A milk seller by occupation, he enlisted on 10th of September 1914. He went to France with the 9th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment on 27th of August 1915 as part of 70th Brigade, 8th Division. On 1st July 1916 the 9th Battalion took part in the Battle of the Somme and lost almost half the attacking force from machine guns sited in Thiepval Wood. Out of 25 officers and 736 other ranks, only 180 returned. Lance-Corporal Leonardi was awarded the M.M. (London Gazette 12th December 1917). He was discharged from the 13th Battalion on 18 February 1919 with a home address of 17 Wright Street, off Hewitt Street, Nottingham.
Sgt Mjr. Richard James Lepine
British Army 13th Btn. B Coy. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:East Ham London
(d.11th Apr 1917)
Capt. Frank Graham Lescher MC and two bars
British Army 77th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Hampstead, London
Mjr. Cecil George Leslie MC.
British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards
Cecil Leslie was aged 40 when he died on 11th August 1919. He is buried in the Old ground in the South-East part of the Kilmore Church of Ireland Cemetery, Castlegrain, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
Pte. George Leslie
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Glenavy, Co Antrim.
George Leslie was born 13 Mar 1876 in Ballycessy, Co Antrim, Ireland to Andrew Leslie and his wife, Ellen nee Dobson, the 6th of 10 children. He was a member of St Aidan's Church of Ireland in Glenavy as well as the Loyal Orange Lodge. Plaques in both record his participation in WW1 as being a member of the 2/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. His name is also engraved on the Glenavy War Memorial as a Survivor.
Sometime before 1901 George moved to Scotland and from Census Records he was employed first as a Navvy in Beath, Fife, Scotland, In 1911 he is in Coatbridge, Lanark, Scotland working in the Ironworks. It is unknown exactly when he enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers. On 18th of February 1929 George died at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow from Rheumatoid Arthritis. He had never married.
George Leslie is my great uncle and this is the information that I have learned of him through my ancestry research.
Cpl. Roy John Leslie
New Zealand Expeditionary Force New Zealand Field Artillery
from:Auckland, New Zealand
(d.5th September 1917)
Roy Leslie was the Son of David Kirkwood Anderson and Rose Ann Leslie, of Tahiti, Lynton Avenue, Auckland, New Zealand. Born at Hawera, New Zealand, he was aged 23 when he died and is buried in the Uranie Cemetery in the Society Islands.
Major Ernest Albert LeSouef
Australian Imperial Forces 2nd Light Horse
from:Perth Western Asutralia
Ernest Le Souef served with 2nd Light Horse
2nd Lt. Albert Edward Lester MC
British Army 13th Btn. London Regiment
(d.8th May 1918)
My great uncle 2nd Lt Albert Edward Lester was killed in action near Neuville Vitasse on 8th May 1918 and awarded the military cross. His medal record has him first serving in Egypt from August 1915.
Sjt. Ernest Wyndham Arthur Lester DCM
British Army 468 Field Coy. Royal Engineers
During the attack at the Hohenzollern Redoubt Captain James Selby Gardner was wounded in the neck. Serjeant Ernest Wyndham Arthur Lester took command and went on to rescue several men from 'no-man's land' whilst under constant sniper-fire. For this gallantry he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Pte. Frank Lester VC
British Army 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Irby, Birkenhead
(d.12th October 1918)
Frank Lester was killed in action 12th October 1918 aged 22, he was the son of John and Ellen Lester, of Miller's Hay, Irby, Birkenhead. Born at Huyton, Liverpool
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 31067, dated 13th Dec., 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice during the clearing of the village of Neuvilly, on 12th October, 1918, when, with a party of about seven men under an officer, he was the first to enter a house from the back door, and shot 2 Germans as they attempted to get out by the front door. A minute later a fall of masonry blocked the door by which the party had entered. The only exit into the street was under fire at point-blank range. The street was also swept by fire of machine guns at close range. Observing that an enemy sniper was causing heavy casualties to a party in a house across the street, Pte. Lester exclaimed, " I'll settle him," and, dashing out into the street, shot the sniper at close quarters, falling mortally wounded at the same instant. This gallant man well knew it was certain death to go into the street, and the party opposite was faced with the alternative of crossing the fire-swept street or staying where it was and being shot one by one. To save their lives he sacrificed his own."
Boy II James John Lester
Royal Navy HMS Diamond
from:St Pancras London
James was my maternal grandmother's brother.
He served on HMS Diamond 25 June 1910 to 31 Aug 1910 as Boy II, aged 17
Pte. Reuben Lester
British Army 2/18th London Irish Battalion London Regiment
(d.22nd Aug 1916)
My father's name was Charles Reuben Lester and after his death I tried to find details of his 2nd World War service. I always wondered why he was given the name Reuben. After much research I discovered that he was named after my Grandfather's brother Reuben Lester who was killed with the 2nd Battalion London Irish Rifles, at a place called Maeton, France on the 22nd August 1916.
The family all came from the World's End, Chelsea and he enlisted at the local recruiting office which was the Duke of York's Barracks, in the Kings Road, Chelsea. They landed at Le Havre, France on 23rd. June 1916. I found it very sad that none of my family knew of this man, no photographs, in fact nothing that even suggested that he even existed. I have since found his grave at the Ecoivres Military Cemetery.
How many other families have forgotten heroes?
Rfm. William Frederick Lesurf
British Army 1st Battalion Rife Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
from:London
(d.19th Oct 1916)
Pte. John Letch
British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Birtley, Co Durham
(d.17th July 1915)
CERA. Franck C. Letouze
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Bergamot
(d.13th Aug 1917)
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