Name
Leonard Gray
1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/06/1916
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20612
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY
II. J. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Leonard Gray was born in 1877 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk to Lawrence and Lousia Gray. On the 1911 Census he was a boarder with Alfred Bishop and his wife Annie at 130 South Street, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Fishmonger's Assistant, aged 35. (Alfred Bishop was also a Fishmonger's Assistant.)
Although his parents were
living in Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford on the 1891 and 1901 Censuses with his siblings, Leonard was not living with them. His widowed father was living in South Street, Bishop's Stortford in 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served in the Bedfordshire Regiment from 30 September 1915. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme in the trenches at
Maricourt.
Additional Information
His father Lawrence received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £11 5s 10d but was refused a pension.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer