Name
Leonard Victor Stone
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15546
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Christ Church Memorial, Watford,
Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
His parents married 19 May 1883 at St John the Baptist, Aldbury, Herts.
Elizabeth died 1907 in Watford aged 54, and was buried 26 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Thomas possibly died 1940 in Ware, Herts, aged 77, and was buried 3 February at St Mary’s, Ware.
Leonard was born 6 October 1895 in Bushey, Herts, and baptised 15 November 1895 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. He attended Alexandra School, Watford, from 2 June 1903 to 24 March 1905 [sic]; then Callowland Board School, Watford, from 10 January 1905 [sic] to 7 October 1909. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Oxhey, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a baker’s errand boy aged 15, he lived in Watford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 26 July 1915, and was killed in action during a successful attack on Pommiers Redoubt and ground between Montauban-de-Picardie and Mametz.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Leonard’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Jonty Wild
