Name
Jack Leonard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
TF/1612
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Little Heath, 31 July 1895. Baptised at Christ Church 25 August 1895. Youngest son of Arthur and Esther Leonard of 3 Heath Cottages, Little Heath. He was a member of 1st Little Heath Scout Troop. In the 1911 census he was a railway booking clerk and living with his uncle and aunt in Bradford.
Wartime Service
Attested 5 June 1912 at Barnet. Attended Territorial Force summer training at Falmer in 1912 and Eastbourne in 1913. Mobilised 4 August 1914 and posted to Gibraltar from 4 September 1914 to 14 February 1915. Embarked from Southampton and landed in France at Le Havre, 12 March 1915. Promoted to Lance Corporal 24 June 1915. Injury to foot, admitted to hospital 16-19 March 1916. Promoted to Corporal 7 April 1916. Wounded in action 29 June 1916[Gommecourt]. Rejoined unit 5 July 1916. Killed in action 16 September 1916 during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which saw the first use of tanks and was the 7th major offensive of the Battle of the Somme. His mother received a letter from a soldier saying that Jack was wounded and left in a shell hole.
Additional Information
CWGC records him as the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Leonard, of Potters Bar, Middx. When he died.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
