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Pte. Leonard Twamley British Army 2/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment


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Pte. Leonard Twamley

British Army 2/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment

from:Coventry

(d.19th Jul 1916)

Appeal for information 1st September 1916 from his mother Drucilla in the Coventry Herald. Len was killed at the Battle of Fromelles on 19th July 1916.

Appeal for information 1st September 1916 from his mother Drucilla in the Coventry Herald. Len was killed at the Battle of Fromelles on 19th July 1916.

Leonard Twamley was a 19 year old lad who joined the 2/7th Royal Warwickshires in November 1915 as a volunteer. He had formerly been a turner at the Singer factory in Coventry. 2/7th was a territorial battalion whose base was Coventry. It became part of the 61st Division which after training in Northampton, Essex and Salisbury Plain left Southampton on 22nd May 1916 for le Harve.

The 2/7th together with a number of other South Midlands battalions were near Laventie in July 1916. On 19th July 1916 he was part of three companies of the 2/7th that went into battle about 6pm and reached the German trenches. Within a couple of hours they retreated and Len was killed together with a large number of others, British and Australian in the Battle of Fromelles.

On 1st September 1916 his mother Drucilla placed an appeal in the Coventry Herald for information as he was missing in action at the time. In 1917 He was officially assumed to have been killed in action. Len's total service in the army was 245 days. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos memorial. He is also commemorated, together with his brother George on his mother's grave in London Road Cemetery, Coventry. George was killed in Belgium in July 1917.









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