Name
Leonard Benjamin Randle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Leonard Randall was born in the autumn of 1886 at St Albans. He was one of four sons born to Benjamin and Maria Randall. At the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at 3 Buckingham Terrace, Oswald Road, St Albans and Benjamin worked as a Gardener. The family moved to 19 Shakespeare Road, Watford, where they were recorded in the 1901 Census. Benjamin was listed as a Gentleman’s Gardener, and fifteen year old Leonard was employed as a Chocolate Moulder at a Chocolate Factory. By the time of the 1911 Census Leonard had left the family home, and lived as a Lodger with the widowed Emma Derbyshire, her son and daughter-in-law. Emma was employed as a Cook, and lived in Breakspeare Road. Leonard worked as a Gardener.
Leonard was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in October 1914, serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment. By April 1915 the Magazine reported that Leonard had transferred to the 6th Bedfordshire’s and he remained with this unit until the end of the War. His Medal Roll Index Card indicated that Leonard was sent to France on 30th July 1915, and by the end of the War had graduated to the rank of Corporal with the 6th Bedfordshire’s.
Leonard Randall survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
