Name
Leonard Temple
17th September 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1918
26 years.
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
99318
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
1st/5th Battalion.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT
V. H. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Headstone Inscription.
UK & Other Memorials
Not currently aware of any memorial in Bedmond. Abbots Langley War Memorial. Abbots Langley WW1 Plaque.
Pre War
Leonard was born on 17th September 1891, in Bedmond, Nr Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire the only child of William Asa Temple (General Labourer) (B 1854) and Amelia Temple (B 1851) (nee Elkins).
Baptised on the 1st November 1891, in Abbots Langley, Herts.
1901 Census records Leonard aged 9, at school. Living with his parents in Bedmond, Abbots Langley, Herts. His widowed grandmother Mary Elkins was also living with the family.
In July 1907, Leonards father William Temple died.
By 1911 Leonard had left school and was working as a General labourer, living with his widowed mother in Bedmond, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Herts.
Wartime Service
Leonard enlisted in Watford, Herts.
SDITGW records indicate he was in the Huntingdon Cyclist Battalion, but no records found to confirm this, his medal card just indicates The Kings (Liverpool Regiment).
Served with the 1st/ 5th Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). With the service number 99318.
Leonard was Killed in Action on Sunday 28th April 1918. He is buried in Browns’ Road Military Cemetery, Festubert, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Additional Information
Leonards effects of £2-12s-6d, pay owing and £7, war gratuity went to his widowed mother Amelia. Recorded as 99218 in SDITGW.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
