Name
Leonard Keen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1914
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
8456
Royal Scots Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 19 and 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Post Office Memorial (*1),
Not on the Croxley Green memorials,
Stewkley War Memorial, Buckinghamshire,
St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire
Pre War
Son of Jane (nee BODSWORTH) and the late Joseph KEEN; husband of Daisy Elizabeth (nee KEEN) KEEN of Leighton Buzzard, Beds.
His parents married 1872 in the Winslow, Bucks, district. Joseph died 1889 in the Winslow district aged 40. Jane remarried 1899 in the Winslow district to Thomas KEEN, and died 1919 in the Winslow district aged 70.
Leonard was born 1882 in Stewkley, Bucks. He was appointed Assistant Postman Watford January 1914, and Postman Watford May 1914. He married 1914 in the Leighton Buzzard district, and resided in Leighton Buzzard.
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 8 he lived in Stewkley, with his widowed mother and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, an ordinary agricultural labourer aged 17, he still lived in Stewkley, with his ‘parents’ and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a Private in the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers aged 28, he was stationed in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Greenwich, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action at Ypres.
Additional Information
*1 He appears under the Croxley Green section of the Watford Post Office memorial.
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)
