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Pte. Robert Henry Leggott
British Army 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
from:Round Close Farm, Guisborough
(d.25th September 1916)
The Commondale Village WWI Commemoration booklet list two Commondale men who went to London in 1914 and joined the 4th Btn Grenadier Guards.
The information below is attributed to Franka and taken from this publication:
Robert Leggott 19208 joined the 4th Btn Grenadier Guards at the same time and was killed on 25th September 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial
His friend Alfred Cockrill 19205 died at Chalfont Colony, The National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire on the 20 August 1920 as a result of a gun shot wound to the head suffered while serving with the 4th Btn in July 1916.