Name
Leonard Julius Whiting
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
154118
Royal Garrison Artillery
261st Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXV. A. 26.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Not on the Hertingfordbury memorials
Pre War
Born in 1880 in Leeds, Yorkshire son of Joseph and Susan Whiting and living in 20 Horns Mill, Hertford in 1901; husband of Catherine H. Whiting of 8 The Village, Hertingfordbury, Hertford. He was a mechanic.
He served in the Boer War.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford on 28 May 1902 Private 7211 in the Bedfordshire Regiment of the Territorial Force and was discharged after 12 years’ service on 27 May 1914 having served in South Africa from 4 Nov 1902 to 8 Apr 1903.
He then re-enlisted at Godalming, Surrey and was killed in action in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
