Driver 1181 Leonard J HOVERD

Driver 1181 Leonard J Hoverd{gallery}Dvr L J Hoverd{/gallery}B Battery, 108th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Killed in action in the Hundred Days Offensive, France and Flanders, 26th August 1918, aged 28

• Buried: Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France. Grave Y.2
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Edward and Hannah Hoverd [nee Willett]
  
• Husband of Ellen Hoverd [nee Worthington]. Married Jan Qtr 1917 at Hinckley
• Brother of Corporal 9047 Henry John Hoverd
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

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Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Driver Hoverd
• Flatiron Copse Cemetery
• Royal Field Artillery

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Oct Qtr 1894 at Rothersthorpe, Northants
  
• Lived at 7 Mill View, Hinckley [1901]
  
• Lived at 64 Woodland Terrace, Burbage, Hinckley [1911]
• Employed in a shoe factory [1911]
• Enlisted at Nuneaton. Arrived in France 31 Aug 1915