Name
Leonard Sheldon Kench
30 July 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/06/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2nd/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
II. C. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Leonard Sheldon Kench was born on 30 July 1888 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the son of Sheldon and Fanny Kench and one of three children. He was baptised on 29 August 1888 in Warwick.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 106 Emscote Road, Warwick where his father was a miller. By 1911 they had moved to at Rock Mill House, Rock Mill Lane, Leamington, Warwickshire at which time Leonard was also working as a miller.
He married Lydia Baldwin in 1912 in Warwick and they had a son Anthony in 1914.
He was a member of the firm of Kench and Son of Warwick millers and at the time of enlistment he was living at The White House, Rock Mill Lane, Leamington, Warwickshire.
Wartime Service
Leonard served in France from 23 May 1916 with the 2nd/7th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, being promoted to Captain.
He died of wounds on 29 June 1916, aged 27, at No. 7 General Hospital, St Omer, France and is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenior Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow and his father were granted probate on 2 September 1916 with effects of £8480 1s 8d.
His widow married William S Spark in 1920 in Berkhamsted.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
