Name
William Evers Leggott
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/07/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
I. F. 34.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE LOVED THE NAME OF HONOUR MORE THAN HE FEARED DEATH
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Ind. Plaque, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Not on the Aldenham Memorials, St Anselms Church - WW1, Hatch End, London, Hatch End Book Of Remembrance, Hatch End, London
Pre War
William Evers Leggott was born in Pinner, Middlesex, around October 1896, son of William Leggott, a Brass Founder, and Abigail Leggott (nee Bolton). He had an older brother Robert (B 1894) and 3 sisters, Dagmar (B 1892), Olga (B 1899) and Vera (B 1899).
1901 Census records William aged 4, living with his parents and four siblings at, Woodridings, Pinner, Middlesex. The family had a live-in Cook and Housemaid.
1911 Census records William aged 14, a boarder at Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts.
He was a member of the school’s Officer Training Corps. Gazetted from OTC to 2nd Lieutenant on the General List on 27 Nov 1914.
Wartime Service
William was posted as 2nd Lieutenant to the 21st Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Landing in France with his Battalion, in June 1916, he was killed in action the following month on 29 July 1916.
Biography
Additional Information
CWGC give date of death as 30 July 1916, all other records give the date as 29 July 1916. His effects of £73-19s-4d, went to his farther William Leggott. His father, Mr W Leggott, "Branksome," Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "HE LOVED THE NAME OF HONOUR MORE THAN HE FEARED DEATH".
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
