Name
Leonard Percy Grant
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
151837
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S. VIII. B.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
Leonard attended Hitchin British Boys' School.
He was married to Ethel St. John and their home was at Willbury Cottages, Willbury Hills, near Hitchin. They had no children. He was the brother of Ernest Arnold Grant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin and was allocated the Corps Number 151837 and posted to the S.S.T.C. - RE.
He died in Barnet Hospital during a leave period, four days after his mother's death. Both of them died of pneumonia resulting from the influenza epidemic that was raging throughout the country at the time. He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery Grave S VIIIB.
Additional Information
Leonard's headstone (not CWGC) reads:
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild