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Pte. John Ronald Leavitt
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lt. Frank Roland Lebish
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.25th July 1917)
Second Lieutenant Frank Lebish was aged 20 when he died. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XIV.A.1. He was the son of George and Georgina Lebish of West Norwood, London.
Cpl. Cyrille Leblanc
US Army 44th Artillery Regiment
from:Gardner, MA, USA
My Grandfather Cyrille Leblanc returned from service in France on the 4th of Feb 1919. He served in France from 16th of September 1917 as an Artilleryman during several major engagements including St Mihiel,
Lt. Walter Alan Leckie
90th Field Coy.
from:Ivanhoe, Australia
(d.21st Feb 1916)
Are there any hospital records about my great uncle, Walter Leckie? He was wounded at Armentieres, his brother (my grandfather) went to a London hospital to see him before he died.
Update: Red Cross records are currently being digitised and will be available in the not too distant future/
Linnie Leckrone
United States Army Nursing Corps
from:United States
Linnie Leckrone was was part of a small gas and shock team who worked tirelessly in France during the war. Despite displaying extraordinary bravery caring for the wounded in the face of a tooth-rattling artillery attack, her return home went unmarked. There was no parade and no welcome-home ceremony.
Although Leckrone was going to be awarded a Citation Star for her efforts, she was discharged from the army before it was formally presented. Her courageous service was finally recognized posthumously in 2007, when her daughter Mary Jane Bolles Reed accepted a Silver Star in her place. The Silver Star is the third-highest award for bravery granted by the U.S. military, and Linnie Leckrone was one of the first three women to receive it.
Capt. John Rupert Frederick Lecky
Royal Fusiliers 7th Btn.
from:Ballykealy, Ireland
(d.28th Sep 1915)
John Lecky was killed in action on the eve of entering Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia while attached to the 2nd Norfolk Regiment. Aged 30 years.
Capt. John Rupert Frederick Lecky
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Ballykealey, Co. Carlow
(d.29th Sep 1915)
The only son of John Rupert Robert & Florence Lecky, John Lecky was killed in action on 29th of September 1915 in front of Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, while attached to the 2nd. Norfolk Regt. He was laid to rest at the village of Saffa on the bank of the River Tigris.
Rflmn. Wilfred Oliver Ledbrook
British Army 16th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Birmingham
(d.24th Dec 1916)
On the day of his death, Wilfred Ledbrook was supposed to be on leave. He was single and gave his leave up to a friend (name unknown) so that the friend could be with his wife and family at Christmas.
I was born in 1947, and his sister (my grandmother) insisted that I be baptised Wilfred Oliver, in memory of her brother. I was always very close to my late Nan.
Pte. Abraham Ledger
British Army 8th/10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
from:Tantobie, Co. Durham
(d.19th April 1917)
Abraham Ledger lost his life serving with the 8th/10th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. His mother, Margaret, gave a baptismal font to the village Methodist Church in memory of her son.
Sgt Harry Ledger
British Army 19th Btn. Lancashire Fusilers
from:Salford
Harry Ledger also served as a regular in the East Lancashire Regt. during the Boer war when it was a mounted infantry regiment. He was wounded during the Great War. He was my grand father.
Pte. Joseph Henry Ledger
British Army 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Outwood, Wakefield
(d.28th June 1918)
Joseph Henry Ledger was the youngest of 3 brothers, the middle of which was my maternal grandfather. I have little knowledge of Joseph, other than that he served with the 10th Battalion of the East Yorks Regiment, he was killed, has no known grave and he had been to visit my Granddad in hospital when he himself had been badly wounded.
I have attempted research over the last 10 years or so - initially finding him on the Commonwealth Graves Commission website. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium and in Beverley Minster. Efforts to find out more led to nothing. I discovered that records that might have given insight into the circumstances of his death had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. I have seen a regimental war diary for the day he died - it recorded an attack on a village that went easily with the only non-commissioned casualties being those of men who had strayed into the path of an advancing artillery barrage; friendly fire in other words. As the names of ordinary rank casualties were not recorded in war diaries, it is a long shot to believe that he was one of those men; although that would explain the lack of a body. Though Family lore says he went missing on his way back to his unit after visiting my Granddad at the hospital. I assume that this was in Belgium.
I dont know why, but I feel an affinity with this young man. Maybe because he looks a bit like I did when I was younger. He was 20 when killed, had lived with his Mum and Dad and was plunged into God knows what. He would never marry, have kids or live to see his brothers family. I wonder how he would have felt leaving my Granddad to return to his unit. His older brother, John William, had been killed the month before and he had just seen his other brother, crippled for life. What odds would he have given for his own survival?
My mother is the only survivor now of her family, and although no-one has ever asked me to, I feel a responsibility to ensure Joseph Henry is not forgotten.
L/Cpl. George Ledingham
British Army 526th Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.12th Aug 1917)
George Ledingham, died aged 25. He was born in Jarrow in 1892, son of Benjamin and Margaret Ledingham. In the 1911 Census he is listed as George Ledingham, age 18, a Joiner on Buildings, living with his parents Benjamin & Margaret Ledingham & his siblings at 58, Russell Street, Jarrow.
George is buried in Mindel Trench British Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy. and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Pte. G. H. Ledson
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Francis Ledwidge
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Janeville, Slane, County Meath
(d.31st July 1917)
Francis Ledwidge was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I on 31st of July 1917 aged 29.
The Irish In Gallipoli.
Where Aegean cliffs with bristling menace front
The treacherous splendour of that isley sea,
Lighted by Troys last shadow; where the first
Hero kept watch and the last Mystery
Shook with dark thunder. Hark! The battle brunt!
A nation speaks, old Silences are burst.
˜Tis not for lust of glory, no new throne
This thunder and this lightning of our power
Wakens up frantic echoes, not for these
Our Cross with Englands mingle, to be blown
At Mammons threshold. We but war when war
Serves Liberty and Keeps a world at peace.
Who said that such an emprise could be vain?
Were they not one with Christ, who fought and died?
Let Ireland weep: but not for sorrow, weep
That by her sons a land is sanctified,
For Christ arisen, and angels once again
Come back, like exile birds, and watch their sleep.Francis Ledwidge, France, 24th February, 1917
Pte. Alfred Lee MM
British Army 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Leeds
My grandfather Alfred Lee served in the 9th Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. I believe he originally enlisted in the Leeds Pals but by the time of this citation just days before the end of the war he was in the 9th Battalion. He served as a stretcher bearer and survived the conflict. He would have been 18 at the onset of the war. He was one of 5 brothers. He lost one brother Charlie at sea who I believe was under age when he enlisted. He didn't talk about the war. His mother had the citation framed and on her wall and it mow hangs on my living room wall.
Pte. Andrew Lee
British Army 15th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.11th November 1917)
Pte. Arthur Lee
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Arthur Lee
British Army 1st/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
(d.7th Jul 1916)
Arthur Arthur died of wounds received.
Pte. Bertie Harold Lee
British Army 1st Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Colchester
(d.14th April 1917)
Pte. Charles Lee
British Army 1st Btn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:South London
(d.23rd July 1916)
Pte. Charles Earnest Lee
British Army Sherwood Foresters
from:Grimsby
Charles Lee was born in May 1900. Fortunately for me, his Grandson, he wasn't called up until near the end of the war. He didn't therefore fight overseas. Unfortunately I have no other information about his role in the Army. I only have these pictures.
Maj. Charles Henry Lee MC.
British Army 24th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Oldham
Unfortunately Henry Lee died of pneumonia in 1920 just before my mother was born. His grave is in St. Anne's, Lancashire. He was awarded the Military Cross.
Pte. D. Lee
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Dunston
Pte. Daniel Walter Lee
British Army 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
(d.1st July 1916)
Daniel Lee was born on the 8th of September 1881 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He married Amelia Rook (b.1882 in Broom, Bedfordshire) in 1907 in Biggleswade. They had three children, John Frederick b.1907, Walter b.1910 and Margaret A. b.1913 in Barnsley. Daniel served with the 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and lost his life on the 1st of July 1916 aged 35 years. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, the Monk Bretton War Memorial and the St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Tablet and WW1 Memorial Book Amelia went on to marry to John Walsh in 1919 in Barnsley and lived until 1967.
Company Qtr Mstr Sjt. E. F. Lee
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Stoker. Edward Lee
Royal Navy HMS Defence
(d.31st May 1916)
Edward Lee was the son of Wiliam J. and Elizabeth Lee. He died at sea during the Battle of Jutland.
Pte. F. R. Lee
British Army 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Cpl. Frank Edward Lee
Royal Field Artillery
Frank Edward Lee was born in Borrodaile Road, Wandsworth, London on 3rd November 1890. His dad died 6 weeks after his birth and he lived with his mother Susan and brother Christopher until joining the army in Aldershot in 1908.
As a member of the Royal Field Artillery he was part of the British Expeditionary Force that entered France in 1914. I can find no records of his war service though I suppose to survive 4 years at the front was miraculous in itself. He remained in the Army after the Armistice and was posted to Athlone Barracks in Co Westmeath, Ireland. On demobilisation in 1921 he continued to live in Athlone, Ireland until 1941 when family circumstances saw him move to Limerick City.
He never spoke of his time on the front and died in Limerick in 1970. He is buried in Cornamagh Cemetery in Athlone with his wife Emma Maud whom he married on November 25th 1915 while on a break from the front.
Pte. Frank Lee
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Btn Otago Infantry Regiment
Born in Latrobe, Tasmania, Frank Lee emigrated to New Zealand in 1912 to Invercargill. He enlisted in October 1917 and marched into Etaples, France, on 13th of September 1918. (Nom Roll W4849)
Capt. G. W. Lee
British Army 173rd Brigade, C Bty Royal Field Artillery
Captain Lee also served with `B' and `D' Batteries during the war.
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