Name
Leonard Arthur Hurry
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25966
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping Memorial, Buckland
Pre War
Born in 1892 in Buckland Herts. son of Joseph and Emily (Malyon) Hurry and christened on 13 Feb 1892 in Buckland. He was living in Therfield in 1911 as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
The 4th Bedfords were in the front line near Arras on 23 April 1917 and were to the fore in the capture of Gavrelle village in the Second battle of the Scarpe. That day about 260 of the battalion were killed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
