Leonard Bass

Rank 
Bombardier
Regiment 
Royal Garrison Artillery
Date of death 
17 October 1916
Age of death 
26
Address 
Drummore
Woodville Road
South Woodford
Woodford
E18 1JU
Address source 
1911 Census
Cemetery / Memorial 
France
Biography 

Born in 1890 at Lambourne near Abridge, son of William (initially a Farmer, then Park Keeper/Gardener to the Borough Council) and Anna Bass. 1901: With his family at 1 Beechcroft Road, South Woodford. 1911: A Butchers Roundsman at “Drummore” later at 12 Woodville Road, South Woodford.

Enlisted at Tottenham, and went to France with his Battery on 9th September 1916. He was Killed in Action in during the Battle of the Somme.

This was the first of two sons that Mrs Bass was to lose.

Research by Adrian Lee, Local Historian

Principal Sources:

Ancestry.com

FindmyPast.co.uk