Name
Leonard Alloway
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235058
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 50 and 51.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Abbots Langley memorials, Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Caroline (nee BRYANT) and the late Henry ALLOWAY; husband of Beatrice (nee CARTER) ALLOWAY.
His parents married 1872 in the Hemel Hempstead, Herts, district. Henry died 1912 aged 58; Caroline died 1928 aged 77; both in the Watford district.
Leonard was born 1882 in Abbot’s Langley, Herts, and married 1 July 1911 at St Lawrence’s. Abbot’s Langley; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Beatrice never remarried, she died 27 January 1938 in Watford aged 53, and was buried 31 January in North Watford Cemetery.
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 9 he lived at Hunton Bridge, Herts, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1901 Census, a gardener aged 19, he lived in Abbot’s Langley, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a gardener aged 28, he was a boarder in Beaconsfield, Bucks.
Officially recorded as born Abbots Langley and was living in Watford when he enlisted in High Wycombe, Bucks.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in High Wycombe, Bucks, and was formerly Private 3546 Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Leonard’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Additional Information
SDITGW has the incorrect service number of 23508.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
