Name
Leonard Reynolds Bard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24459
Essex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Born in 1896 at Saffron Walden, Leonard Bard was the son of Mrs. Sarah Bard, of 40, Knight St., Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
He was one of those who volunteered in 1914 and joined the 11th Battalion Essex Regiment. This was a ‘Kitchener’ Service Battalion, formed in September 1914. They landed in France at Boulogne on 30 August 1915.
On the 26 September 1916, the 3rd phase of the Battle of the Somme started. Leonard Bard was involved in the attack at Morval, part of the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, itself part of the wider Somme offensive. It was here that Leonard Bard lost his life. He was aged 20.
Leonard Bard has no known grave but is named on the Thiepval Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
