Name
Leonard Henry Druett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/12/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1689
London Regiment *1
1st/15th (County of London) Bn.
'A' Coy.,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 132.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford, Wood Green War Memorial, Middlesex, Houses of Parliament Ecclesiastical Commissioners Office War Memorial
Pre War
Son of Archibald Decimus and Florence Gertrude (nee SUTTON) DRUETT of Wood Green, London.
His parents married 19 September 1893 at St Stephen’s, Hammersmith, London. Archibald died 7 August 1920 in Napsbury, Herts, aged 55; Florence died 27 July 1948 in Harrow, Middx, aged 76.
Leonard was born 1894 in Hornsey, Middx, and baptised 9 September 1894 at West Green, Middx. He resided in Alexandra Park, Middx. He was gazetted 19 February 1913 after an open competition as Junior Clerk L.H.D. with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Hornsey, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 16 he lived in Wood Green, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London, was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 17 March 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Leonard’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about Leonard in the Western Argus, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
