Rank
Private
Regiment
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Date of death
19 July 1915
Age of death
22
Address
116 Wanstead Park Avenue
Wanstead
RED
E12 5EF
Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
Belgium
Biography
Leonard Arthur Plane was born in Surrey on 7th December 1892 In 1911, Leonard was living with his father George, a tobacco merchant, his mother Emily, and his five siblings at 116 Wanstead Park Avenue.
Leonard was working as a clerk in 1911, but enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in the early months of the war. He was sent to France and died in battle on 19th July 1915, aged 22. Leonard is buried at Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres, West Flanders in Belgium.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com