Name
Leonard Scott
22/02/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
43235
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, Not on the Bourne End memorials
Pre War
Leonard Scott was born on 22 February 1894, in Kings Langley, Herts, son of Samuel Scott and Emma Rebecca Scott (nee Fisher). One of eight children, Henry Charles (B 1892), Sidney (B 1898), Elsie (B 1901), Dora (B 1904), Lillian (B 1906), Cissie (B 1908), and Florence (B 1910).
He was Baptised William Leonard Scott (but used his middle name Leonard), on 21 March 1894, in the Parish Church, Kings Langley.
1901 Census records Leonard aged 7, living with his parents and three siblings, in Waterside, Kings Langley.
1911 Census records Leonard aged 17, working in the Hay Trade (his father is recorded as a Hay Dealer and Farmer) living with his parents and seven siblings at, The Lamb, Kings Langley. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant.
The family later moved to Bourne End Farm, Boxmoor, Herts.
Wartime Service
Leonard enlisted in Watford, Herts, initially posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 26559. Later transferred to the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment with the service number 43235.
Leonard was Killed in Action aged 23, on 3 May 1917, possible at the Third Battle of the Scarpe (3-4 May 1917). He has no known grave; he is Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £4-12s-11d, Pay Owing and £4-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his father Samuel.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
