Name
Leonard Powley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
69106
Royal Fusiliers *1
8th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 3 and 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, Not on the Bishops Hatfield memorials
Pre War
Son of Eliza Powley.
Leonard Powley family is currently in question and the following seems likely at present:
1911 Census: There is a Leonard Powley, aged 15, living with parents Alfred & Eliza Powley in Essendon Lodge, Hatfield Park. This Leonard is said to have been born in Swaffham, Norfolk, not Tottenham Middx. which is on his army service record. Father, Alfred is a horseman on farm. Leonard is working as a groom, domestic servant.
1901 Census: Tracing the parents back Alfred and Eliza are living in Swaffham, Norfolk, with a son Alfred and a visitor, Leonard Pailes, aged 5, who was born in London. Could this young Leonard be the same Leonard on the 1911 census?
Officially recorded as born in Tottenham, Middx. and was living in Hatfield when he enlisted in Galashiels.
Wartime Service
Private, Regiment: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Battalion: 8th, Number: 69106
Additional information at some point served in Egypt
Awarded the Victory medal, British War Medal, 1914 Star
Additional Information
Leonard is also commemorated on the family headstone in Bishop's Hatfield (St. Luke) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO LEONARD POWLEY
BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE (Eliza Powley)
DIED NOVR. 24TH 1917 AGED 24 YEARS.
KILLDE IN ACTION
"PEACE, PERFECT PEACE."
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mr A. Powley (Father) of Essendon Lodge, received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
*1 More correctly (City of London) Bn. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
