Moore, Vincent Henry
Bates, George William
Fisher, William R
Cockayne, Percy
Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of John Edward Cockayne a tailor, born 1871 in Leicester and his wife Martha, born 1871 in Leicester. Percy was born in 1897 in Leicester, in March 1901 the family home was at […]
Lander, William Quinton
Needham, John Cleaver
West, Bertrand Hatton
Bertrand Hatton West Baptised: Abode: Son of: 23rd August 1885 at St Saviours Church, Leicester 16 St Saviours Terrace, Leicester Alfred and Clara (nee Foster) West Siblings: Reginald Alfred West Frederick Victor West Dorothy Mabel West 11thSep 1883 – 6thMay 1964 23rd Sep 1887 – 1st Nov 1945 23rd Dec 1891 – (Jan-Mar) 1967 Census […]
Wightman, Frederick Gordon
Buried at La Delivrarde, War Cemetery, Douvres, France. Son of Walter William and Florence Wightman, of Leicester; husband of Florence Isabel Wightman, of Leicester.
Foxon, Samuel Nevil
Buried at the Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India. Son of Samuel and Rhoda Louisa Foxon, of Leicester; husband of Hilda Foxon, of Humberstone, Leicester.
Flewitt, Walter Douglas Haigh
Enlisted into the Militia, 1939 as number 10103632. He later served in the Malaya Campaign 1941-1942 with the Regiment’s 1st Bn and was made a prisoner of war. He died of beri- beri and malaria as a prisoner of war in Thailand between the 1-31 July 1943, aged 24. He is commemorated on the Singapore […]
Munday, William
George was the third child of Walter Munday who was an Agricultural Labourer from Luton. Walter married Annie Stevens in 1884 in Adstock in Buckinghamshire where their first three children were born, Alfred John born in 1885, Cicely Kate, born 1887 and Walter George born in 1889. The family later moved to Toft and Lound […]
Mason, John William
The brother’s parents, William And Annie Mason were living in Brook Street in Kettering before moving to Leicester, he was working as a Bricklayer. William was originally from Colwell in Herefordshire and Annie was from Malvern in Worcestershire. By the 1891 Census the couple were living at Victoria Avenue in Knighton with their five children, […]
