Name
Leslie Frederick Gardner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1916
17
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Boy 1st Class
J/48202
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Genista”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
13.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park
Pre War
Born on 4 Sep 1899 in Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and baptised on 7 Oct 1899 in Bengeo, Hertford son of Frederick William and Edith Mary (Bunyan) Gardner and living in 68 Whitley Road, Rye Park, Hoddesdon in 1901.
Wartime Service
Died when HMS Genista was sunk by torpedo from submarine U-57 in the Atlantic off SW Ireland.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
