Name
Cyril Leggett
13 December 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Ordinary Seaman
London Z/6977
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
S.S. Brodvale
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREAT BERKHAMSTED (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY
Row 2.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None on CWGC headstone lies on a private family grave
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Cyril Leggett was born on 13 December 1886 in Hackney, London, the son of Benjamin and Alice Leggett and one of seven children. He was baptised in Harpenden, Herts on 11 October 1900.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Laurel House, Lower Cravell's Road, Harpenden and his father was a civil servant working as a clerk with the savings bank department of the General Post Office. By 1911 they had moved to Berkhamsted and were living at 'St Keverne', Kings Road, Berkhamsted, Herts at which time Cyril was an assistant clerk with the civil service after his appointment in 1906. He was also a teacher at the local Sunday school.
Wartime Service
Cyril joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 21 June 1917.
He died on 21 April 1918 at Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, following a fall from a hatch ladder whilst serving on SS Brodvale.
He is buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted (family grave).
Additional Information
His father obtained probate in London on 4 June with effects of £330 3s 6d.
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Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.rectorylanecemetery.org.uk
