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Robert Were Leach

11 August 2015 by SWM

R. W. Leach
Service no. 11233
Corporal, Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in St Paul’s Churchyard, London; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds at age 25 on 16 October 1916
CWGC: “Son of George Were Leach and Mary Julia Leach, of 37 Landor Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Contay British Cemetery, Contay, France

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Robert Were Leach lived at 37 Landor Road, Stockwell, where his family occupied 4 rooms. His father, George Were Leach, 42, was a railway inspector, born in Uffcombe, Devon. His mother, Julia Mary Leach, 43, was from Yeldham, Essex. Robert, 19, born in Battersea, was a clerk with the South West Gas Company; his younger brother, Lionel George Leach, born in Ockenden, Esse, 15, was a clerk for a firm of barristers; Horace Reginald Leach, 9, born in Clapham, was at school.
Ten years previously, in 1901, Robert Leach was lived with his parents, younger brother Lionel and various boarders at 52 Willington Road.
William Rochester, 39, a married grocer’s assistant from Canning Town
Frederick Rowe, 22, a grocer’s assistant from Brixton
Alfred Gregory, 30, a civil engineer from Andover, Hampshire
Arthur Grout, 29, a railway guard from Greenwich
Frederick Grigg, 20, a railway guard from Deal, Kent
John J. Fruel, 20, a railway guard from East Hendred, Berkshire
Richard Dennett, 20, a railway shunter, from Margate, Essex

Filed Under: L names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 25, DOW, France

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