Name
Leonard Gray
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
01/12/1944
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Bombardier
1052707
Royal Artillery
11 Field Regt.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ATHENS MEMORIAL
Face 2.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Suffolk and, at the time he enlisted, was resident in Middlesex. His Service Number was 1052707 and at the time of his death he was attached to the 11th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. This Regiment was equipped with 25-founder field guns and was part of the 4th Indian Division which went to Greece on the 30 November 1944. They had the unenviable task of trying to keep order in a country ravaged by internal strife between monarchists, communists and bandits.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Face 2 of the Athens Memorial in Greece.
He was the son of George and Mary Gray of Hitchin and the husband of Elsie May Gray of Ashford in Middlesex.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Orders of Battle 2nd W.W.’ by H.F. Joslen
