Name
Leslie Corbett Coventry
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/05/1918
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
South Nottinghamshire Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath Memorial at All Saints, Clevedon, Somerset
Pre War
Born on 15 Jul 1872 son of Corbet John and Honora Maria (Sutherland) Coventry.
Educated at Haileybury College 1886-88. He later lived in Bexhill on Sea, Sussex. Served in the South African War 1900-01.
Wartime Service
Entered WW1 in the Eastern Mediterranean on 26 Apr 1915. Died - drowned in Mediterranean when the ”Leasowe Castle” was torpedoed by UB 51 off Alexandria on the way to Marseilles.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
