Name
Leonard Charles Brenton
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
47613
Suffolk Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 4
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial, St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial
Pre War
Leonard Charles BRENTON was born in Lambeth, London/Surrey,
in 1892, son of Henry Brenton a Kiln Burner and Potter and Mary Brenton, (nee
Matthews). The eldest of five children although one died in infancy.
Baptised on 9th October 1892, in Penselwood,
Somerset, (his mother’s hometown), at the time the family lived in Vauxhall,
London.
1901 Census records Leonard aged 8, at school, living with
his parents, Sister May (7), brothers Albert (4) and Ernest Reginald (2) at 7
Admirals Walk, North Side, Hoddesdon, Herts.
1911 Census, Leonard (18) is recorded as a Domestic Footman,
for Robert Barclay (a Banker) and his wife Alice at 12 Chapel Street, Belgrave
Square, London/Middlesex. The Barclay family had six live-in Domestic servants
including Leonard. His parents, brothers Albert (14) and Ernest Reginald are
still living in Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon. His father Henry is recorded as a
Pottery Manufacturer.
Leonard married Maud Mary Miller in late 1915, in
Northampton, they went on to have one son Charles Henry Frederick Brenton born
in April 1917.
Wartime Service
Leonard travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist,
posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service number 31298,
later transferred to the Suffolk Regiment and issued with a new service number
47613. Seeing action on the Western Front, Leonard was Killed in Action on 21st/22nd
March 1918, at the Battle of St. Quintin. (Battle of St. Quintin 21st
to 23rd March 1918) (part of the Second Battle of the Somme
21st March to 5th April 1918). He has no known grave,
he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Arras, France, to the missing. Bay 4.
Additional Information
Maud received a Widows Pension of 20/8 a week from 18th
November 1918. His effects of £13-07-11, was split between Maud £4-09-05 and
£8-18-06 to a, Guardian Dorcas Miller. On 23rd May 1919 Maud was
awarded a Grant of £5.
1921 Census records son Charles aged 4, living with his
Grandparents Frederick and Dorcas Miller at 32 Vernon Terrace, Northampton,
both his parents are recorded as died.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Richard Barber
